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. Yours, Laurenz Albe
