Re: Question: Multiple pg clusters on one server can be reached with the standard port.

On 6/16/23 07:50, Laurenz Albe wrote:
> On Fri, 2023-06-16 at 12:35 +0000, Brainmue wrote:
>> We want to minimise dependencies between the application and the associated PostgreSQL DB.
>> The idea is that the application gets its DB alias and this is then used as a connection string.
>> This way we can decide in the backend on which server the PostgreSQL DB is running.
> There is an existing solution for that: the libpq connection service file:
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/libpq-pgservice.html

Do JDBC and ODBC recognize .pg_service.conf?  I know they don't recognize 
.pgpass.

> If you want to manage the connection strings centrally, you can use LDAP lookup:
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/libpq-ldap.html
>
> Yours,
> Laurenz Albe

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