[Tile-serving] [osm2pgsql-dev/osm2pgsql] can osm2pgsql support PGSERVICEFILE ? (Discussion #2437)

[Andreas Hadjiprocopis]

`psql` has this feature whereas you can specify a "service file" which contains username/dbname/password combinations (and other things like host, port, etc.) for connecting to a Pg db.
The location of the service file can be specified as an environment variable and can be made to be used just for the current session by doing something like this:

```PGSERVICEFILE='myservicefile.pg' psql 'service=mydbname' ... ```

and the service file contains something like:
```
[postgres]
host=
port=
dbname=mydbname
user=mydbuser
password=xyz
```
The benefit of this is that you do not specify a password on the command line and that the service file can be made to be temporary and specific to just one command, so no system-wide files with passwords, which I prefer personally.

I was wondering if that feature i supported by `osm2pgsql`. I mean I searched but could not find anything. I know one can specify `--password apassword` or `-W` to get a password prompt.

thanks a lot for this open source and free software.

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