Reece Hart wrote: > I'd like to be able to have several versions of a database > available concurrently and one database alias that refers to > the most recent of these. For example: > > dbname_1-1 > dbname_1-2 > dbname_1-3 > dbname -> dbname_1-3 > > and > $ psql -d dbname > would connect to dbname_1-3. > > Any ideas? In 8.2 (currently beta) you can store connection data and database name on an LDAP server and refer to it via a service name. See http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/libpq-ldap.html You can use the service name to connect: env PGSERVICE=dbname psql This will work with all client interfaces that use libpq to connect. Yours, Laurenz Albe
