Thanks!
I've never done that in PG before, but I've used named connections
with Oracle. Is it the same sort of deal? There's a file on the disk
somewhere with the connection info? Either way, I'm sure it's a RTFM
thing so I'll look into it.
Mike
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Mike Christensen <mike@kitchenpc.com> wrote:
>> I often manually pull in production data into my test database so I
>> can test new code on realistic data, as well as test upgrade scenarios
>> or repro data specific bugs. To do this, I've setup a `VIEW` for each
>> production table in my test database. These views look something like
>> this:
>>
>> CREATE VIEW ProdLink.Users AS
>> select * from dblink(
>> 'hostaddr=123.123.123.123 dbname=ProductionDB user=ROUser
>> password=secret',
>> 'select * from users') as t1(userid uuid, email varchar(50),
>> alias varchar(50), fullname varchar(50), password varchar(100));
>>
>> Now, on my production database I can run:
>>
>> SELECT * FROM ProdLink.Users;
>>
>> And see all users on my production database. I can then do things like:
>>
>> INSERT INTO Users SELECT * FROM ProdLink.Users L WHERE NOT EXISTS
>> (select 1 from Users where Users.UserId = L.UserId);
>>
>> Allowing me to pull in every user from production that doesn't already
>> exist in test.
>>
>> I have about 30 of these views to *proxy* the production data, however
>> I find it somewhat hacky to have to hardcode in the production
>> database connection info into each view.
>>
>> Is there a good way to avoid hardcoding, or at least duplicating this
>> connection info on each view? Can I use database level variables,
>> environment variables, or anything else instead?
>
> sure: why don't you set up a named connection and just make sure it's
> established before hitting any of the views?
>
> merlin