Re: suggestion/question pgpass alias?

On 2020-Jun-11, Caleb Cushing wrote:

> is it possible to support an alias for a pgpassfile? what I'm looking to do
> is
>
> psql --alias company -h localhost
>
> and not type anything else and get a shell.  if this is not possible could
> this be added?

I think what you want is a "service" file. See
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/libpq-pgservice.html

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