"Stuart" wrote in message news:fanpne$n01$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx: > I can't find an option in psql to connect to a database > by "service" name? Should there be one? Sorry for folowing up my own post but since I got asked in email, and since I wrote code to do essentially the same thing before noticing it in the PG docs... By "service" I am refering to the pg_service.conf file described in http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/libpq-connect.html (see the "service" parameter) and http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/libpq-pgservice.html ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org/