Re: Thoughts on a "global" client configuration?

On 06.10.25 20:05, Jacob Champion wrote:
> I started on a proof of concept and very quickly hit a fork. Do I
> 1) introduce a completely new config file, or
> 2) adapt pg_service.conf to this use case?

I've been thinking about this kind of thing for a long time, and my
intuition has always been to have some kind of [default] section in
pg_service.conf. That would probably be relatively easy.

But:

> - backwards and forwards compatibility (we don't ever break old
> libpqs, but new libpqs can add new options safely)

It might be worth elaborating exactly how this would be solved. If I
look through my dotfiles history, this kind of thing has been a
perennial problem. I don't have any specific ideas right now -- other
than perhaps "ignore unknown parameters", which is surely not without
problems. Depending on what we'd settle on here, that might inform
whether it's feasible to stick this into pg_service.conf or whether it
needs to be a separate thing.