On 13-03-20 02:17 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 01:30:20PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> While this surely isn't the nicest answer, it doesn't seem totally
>> unreasonable to me. A bad service name indeed does not contribute
>> anything to the set of defaults available.
>
> I think the concern is that the services file could easily change the
> defaults that are used for connecting, though you could argue that the
> real defaults for a bad service entry are properly returned.
Yes, my concern is that if I have a typo in the value of PGSERVICE I
don't want to end up getting connected a connection to localhost instead
of an error.
From a end-user expectations point of view I am okay with somehow
marking the structure returned by PQconndefaults in a way that the
connect calls will later fail.