Default libpq service

On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 09:46:34PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

A while ago it was speculated that it might be nice to have a default
service in libpq's pg_service.conf file that would supply missing
connection parameters if none are specified elsewhere, so users could,
say, set the default server host in a configuration file instead of
environment variables.

The precendence would be like this: explicit specification, service (if
explicitly specified), environment, (new: ) default service,
compiled-in default (e.g., for port). (Or maybe the default service
before the environment?)

Comments? Better ideas?

Only problem that springs to mind is that you probably wouldn't want a
default password in a world-readable /etc/ file, but you can't stop a
determined fool anyway.

I know it would make my life a little easier, so yeah, go for it. This
was proposed for libpqxx a long time ago, but I felt it belonged more at
the libpq level.

Jeroen

PS - Nette Witmung, danke :)