missing windows info

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#1PG Bug reporting form
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The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:

Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/libpq-pgservice.html
Description:

The default location for a user level connection service file on Windows is
not given. The path is given for the password file on the previous page in
the documentation.

Please add that '%APPDATA%\postgresql\.pg_service.conf' is the default
location in https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/libpq-pgservice.html.

#2Bruce Momjian
bruce@momjian.us
In reply to: PG Bug reporting form (#1)
Re: missing windows info

On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 05:40:04PM +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:

The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:

Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/libpq-pgservice.html
Description:

The default location for a user level connection service file on Windows is
not given. The path is given for the password file on the previous page in
the documentation.

Please add that '%APPDATA%\postgresql\.pg_service.conf' is the default
location in https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/libpq-pgservice.html.

Well, in the pgpass case, we have a default location, while in the
service file case, we rely on the output of 'pg_config --sysconfdir'.
We don't specify the location of the service file on Unix-like systems
either. Should this be changed?

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