16. Juni 2023 14:50, "Laurenz Albe" <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at> schrieb:
> 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
>
> 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
Thank you, I already know this solution, but the LDAP solution is out of the question for us and the file again means
anintervention on the client. And that's exactly what we don't want.
