| From: | "Albe Laurenz" <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at> |
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| To: | "Peter Eisentraut *EXTERN*" <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: unknown libpq service entries ignored |
| Date: | 2009-11-27 07:05:04 |
| Message-ID: | D960CB61B694CF459DCFB4B0128514C203938076@exadv11.host.magwien.gv.at |
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> When using the "service" parameter in a libpq connection (e.g., psql
> service=foo), and the service name is not defined in pg_service.conf,
> then the setting is silently ignored and the connection proceeds with
> whatever other settings and defaults apply. That does not look very
> robust. Shouldn't there be an error when a specified service name does
> not exist?
I agree. It leads to strange error messages at least (I didn't want
to connect to port 5432 on localhost?!?), and you could end up
connecting to a different database than you wanted without
noticing it.
Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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