diff --git a/src/bin/psql/command.c b/src/bin/psql/command.c
index 9fcd2db83265..c839634d4233 100644
--- a/src/bin/psql/command.c
+++ b/src/bin/psql/command.c
@@ -4480,6 +4480,7 @@ SyncVariables(void)
 {
 	char		vbuf[32];
 	const char *server_version;
+	char	   *service_name;
 
 	/* get stuff from connection */
 	pset.encoding = PQclientEncoding(pset.db);
@@ -4489,12 +4490,16 @@ SyncVariables(void)
 	setFmtEncoding(pset.encoding);
 
 	SetVariable(pset.vars, "DBNAME", PQdb(pset.db));
-	SetVariable(pset.vars, "SERVICE", PQservice(pset.db));
 	SetVariable(pset.vars, "USER", PQuser(pset.db));
 	SetVariable(pset.vars, "HOST", PQhost(pset.db));
 	SetVariable(pset.vars, "PORT", PQport(pset.db));
 	SetVariable(pset.vars, "ENCODING", pg_encoding_to_char(pset.encoding));
 
+	service_name = get_service_name();
+	SetVariable(pset.vars, "SERVICE", service_name);
+	if (service_name)
+		pg_free(service_name);
+
 	/* this bit should match connection_warnings(): */
 	/* Try to get full text form of version, might include "devel" etc */
 	server_version = PQparameterStatus(pset.db, "server_version");
diff --git a/src/bin/psql/common.c b/src/bin/psql/common.c
index d2c0a49c46c0..3593c0468310 100644
--- a/src/bin/psql/common.c
+++ b/src/bin/psql/common.c
@@ -2531,6 +2531,41 @@ session_username(void)
 		return PQuser(pset.db);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Return the service name of the current connection.
+ *
+ * The caller is responsible for freeing the result value allocated.
+ */
+char *
+get_service_name(void)
+{
+	PQconninfoOption   *opts;
+	PQconninfoOption   *serviceopt = NULL;
+	char	   *res = NULL;
+
+	if (pset.db == NULL)
+		return NULL;
+
+	opts = PQconninfo(pset.db);
+	if (opts == NULL)
+		return NULL;
+
+	for (PQconninfoOption *opt = opts; opt->keyword != NULL; ++opt)
+	{
+		if (strcmp(opt->keyword, "service") == 0)
+		{
+			serviceopt = opt;
+			continue;
+		}
+	}
+
+	/* Take a copy of the value, as it is freed by PQconninfoFree(). */
+	if (serviceopt && serviceopt->val != NULL)
+		res = pg_strdup(serviceopt->val);
+	PQconninfoFree(opts);
+
+	return res;
+}
 
 /* expand_tilde
  *
diff --git a/src/bin/psql/common.h b/src/bin/psql/common.h
index 7f1a23de1e82..261199df3187 100644
--- a/src/bin/psql/common.h
+++ b/src/bin/psql/common.h
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ extern bool SendQuery(const char *query);
 extern bool is_superuser(void);
 extern bool standard_strings(void);
 extern const char *session_username(void);
+extern char *get_service_name(void);
 
 extern void expand_tilde(char **filename);
 extern void clean_extended_state(void);
diff --git a/src/bin/psql/prompt.c b/src/bin/psql/prompt.c
index 3aa7d2d06c80..cdae9b681500 100644
--- a/src/bin/psql/prompt.c
+++ b/src/bin/psql/prompt.c
@@ -169,8 +169,15 @@ get_prompt(promptStatus_t status, ConditionalStack cstack)
 					break;
 					/* service name */
 				case 's':
-					if (pset.db && PQservice(pset.db))
-						strlcpy(buf, PQservice(pset.db), sizeof(buf));
+					{
+						char	   *service_name = get_service_name();
+
+						if (service_name)
+						{
+							strlcpy(buf, service_name, sizeof(buf));
+							pg_free(service_name);
+						}
+					}
 					break;
 					/* backend pid */
 				case 'p':
diff --git a/src/interfaces/libpq/exports.txt b/src/interfaces/libpq/exports.txt
index 0625cf39e9af..dbbae642d769 100644
--- a/src/interfaces/libpq/exports.txt
+++ b/src/interfaces/libpq/exports.txt
@@ -205,9 +205,8 @@ PQcancelFinish            202
 PQsocketPoll              203
 PQsetChunkedRowsMode      204
 PQgetCurrentTimeUSec      205
-PQservice                 206
-PQsetAuthDataHook         207
-PQgetAuthDataHook         208
-PQdefaultAuthDataHook     209
-PQfullProtocolVersion     210
-appendPQExpBufferVA       211
+PQsetAuthDataHook         206
+PQgetAuthDataHook         207
+PQdefaultAuthDataHook     208
+PQfullProtocolVersion     209
+appendPQExpBufferVA       210
diff --git a/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-connect.c b/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-connect.c
index 51a9c4165845..09eb79812ac6 100644
--- a/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-connect.c
+++ b/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-connect.c
@@ -7461,14 +7461,6 @@ PQdb(const PGconn *conn)
 	return conn->dbName;
 }
 
-char *
-PQservice(const PGconn *conn)
-{
-	if (!conn)
-		return NULL;
-	return conn->pgservice;
-}
-
 char *
 PQuser(const PGconn *conn)
 {
diff --git a/src/interfaces/libpq/libpq-fe.h b/src/interfaces/libpq/libpq-fe.h
index 7d3a9df6fd55..af8004f952a5 100644
--- a/src/interfaces/libpq/libpq-fe.h
+++ b/src/interfaces/libpq/libpq-fe.h
@@ -400,7 +400,6 @@ extern int	PQrequestCancel(PGconn *conn);
 
 /* Accessor functions for PGconn objects */
 extern char *PQdb(const PGconn *conn);
-extern char *PQservice(const PGconn *conn);
 extern char *PQuser(const PGconn *conn);
 extern char *PQpass(const PGconn *conn);
 extern char *PQhost(const PGconn *conn);
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml
index 298c4b38ef90..b2c2cf9eac83 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml
@@ -2740,26 +2740,6 @@ char *PQport(const PGconn *conn);
      </listitem>
     </varlistentry>
 
-    <varlistentry id="libpq-PQservice">
-     <term><function>PQservice</function><indexterm><primary>PQservice</primary></indexterm></term>
-
-     <listitem>
-      <para>
-       Returns the service of the active connection.
-
-<synopsis>
-char *PQservice(const PGconn *conn);
-</synopsis>
-      </para>
-
-      <para>
-       <xref linkend="libpq-PQservice"/> returns <symbol>NULL</symbol> if the
-       <parameter>conn</parameter> argument is <symbol>NULL</symbol>.
-       Otherwise, if there was no service provided, it returns an empty string.
-      </para>
-     </listitem>
-    </varlistentry>
-
     <varlistentry id="libpq-PQtty">
      <term><function>PQtty</function><indexterm><primary>PQtty</primary></indexterm></term>