Re: Patch for TNS services

Yes, I will try to make it this weekend when I've time.

Am Die, 12 Sep 2000 schrieben Sie:
> Sounds like people want it.  Can you polish it off, add SGML docs and
> send it over?
>
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> > Last week I created a patch for the Postgres client side libraries to
> > allow something like a (not so mighty) form of Oracle TNS, but nobody
> > showed any interest. Currently, the patch is not perfect yet, but works
> > fine for us. I want to avoid improving the patch if there is no interest
> > in it, so if you think it might be a worthy improvement please drop me a
> > line.
> >
> > It works like this:
> > The patch allows to supply another parameter to the Postgres connect
> > string, called "service". So, instead of having a connect string (e.g. in
> > PHP) like "dbname=foo host=bar port=5433 user=foouser password=barpass"
> > the string would be
> > "service=stupid_name_here"
> > or more often
> > "service=stupid_name_here user=foouser password=barpass"
> >
> > There's a config file /etc/pg_service.conf, having an entry like:
> > [stupid_name_here]
> > dbname=foo
> > host=bar
> > port=5433
> > ....
> >
> > The advantage is you can go from one database host, database, port or
> > whatever without having to touch the scripts or applications. We're
> > currently in the process of migrating all of our PHP and Python scripts
> > to another from localhost, port 5433 to another machine, port 5432 and
> > it's not something I ever want to do again, I'd to change around 100
> > files and I'm still not sure if I've missed one.
> >
> > The patch is client-side only, around 100 lines, needs no changes to the
> > backend and is compatible with all applications supplying a connection
> > string (not using PQsetdblogin)
> >
> > - --
> > Why is it always Segmentation's fault?
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