> We have a database specification in .pgpass:
>
> hostname:port:database:username:password
>
> What is the purpose of 'database' since username/password combinations
> are global, not per database? I would like to documents its purpose.
There is the GUC parameter db_user_namespace. Just for that you could
probably use dennis@foo as username instead, so maybe it's not the
purpose. But I can't think of any other reason.
/Dennis