On 6/16/23 10:19, Laurenz Albe wrote:
> On Fri, 2023-06-16 at 09:04 -0500, Ron wrote:
>> 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.
> JDBC doesn't, because it does not use libpq.
>
> ODBC can use both .pgpass and .pg_service.conf, since it uses libpq.
All of the applications that we use are written in Java, so that wouldn't work.
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