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Why do we have a database specification in .pgpass?

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org>
Date: 2010-10-13T18:32:22Z
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We have a database specification in .pgpass:

	hostname:port:database:username:password

What is the purpose of 'database' since username/password combinations
are global, not per database?  I would like to documents its purpose.

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