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
