"Tom Lane" wrote in message news:26413.1188010872@sss.pgh.pa.us:
> "Stuart" <smcg2297@frii.com> writes:
> >> I can't find an option in psql to connect to a database
> >> by "service" name? Should there be one?
>
> In 8.3 libpq will have code that interprets what's usually the database
> name parameter as a "conninfo" string if there's an "=" in it, [...]
Thank you, that's good news!