On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 03:38:15PM +0200, Samatha Kottha wrote: > We are trying to access a postgres database using a data integration > tool. This data integration tool have options to specify the hostname, > port, userid, and passwd of a database. But there is no way to supply > the database name. What data integration tool is it? Are you sure it doesn't have an option to specify the database? > So, I am thinking to set the database name to each user (default > login database) so that they do not need to supply that info when > they access data using data integration tool. In libpq applications a role's default database has the same name as the role; you can override that with the PGDATABASE environment variable. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/libpq-envars.html See also PGSERVICE, PGSYSCONFDIR, and the connection service file. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/libpq-pgservice.html -- Michael Fuhr
