diff --git a/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-connect.c b/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-connect.c
index c800d79..f2b166b 100644
--- a/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-connect.c
+++ b/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-connect.c
@@ -5020,6 +5020,8 @@ parseServiceFile(const char *serviceFile,
 
 	while ((line = fgets(buf, sizeof(buf), f)) != NULL)
 	{
+		int			len;
+
 		linenr++;
 
 		if (strlen(line) >= sizeof(buf) - 1)
@@ -5032,16 +5034,17 @@ parseServiceFile(const char *serviceFile,
 			return 2;
 		}
 
-		/* ignore EOL at end of line */
-		if (strlen(line) && line[strlen(line) - 1] == '\n')
-			line[strlen(line) - 1] = 0;
+		/* ignore whitespace at end of line, especially the newline */
+		len = strlen(line);
+		while (len > 0 && isspace((unsigned char) line[len - 1]))
+			line[--len] = '\0';
 
-		/* ignore leading blanks */
+		/* ignore leading whitespace too */
 		while (*line && isspace((unsigned char) line[0]))
 			line++;
 
 		/* ignore comments and empty lines */
-		if (strlen(line) == 0 || line[0] == '#')
+		if (line[0] == '\0' || line[0] == '#')
 			continue;
 
 		/* Check for right groupname */