Re: unknown libpq service entries ignored

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2009-11-27T07:22:28Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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On tor, 2009-11-26 at 10:57 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> When using the "service" parameter in a libpq connection (e.g., psql
> service=foo), and the service name is not defined in pg_service.conf,
> then the setting is silently ignored and the connection proceeds with
> whatever other settings and defaults apply.  That does not look very
> robust.  Shouldn't there be an error when a specified service name does
> not exist?

Possible patch for this issue.