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

On Fri, 2023-06-16 at 15:25 +0200, Dominique Devienne wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 2:50 PM Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at> wrote:
> > There is an existing solution for that: the libpq connection service file:
> > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/libpq-pgservice.html
> 
> The problem with the service and password files is that passwords are in plain text though.
> Yes there are restrictions on permissions of the password file (on Linux), still having some
> kind of encrypted token with an expiration date would be better IMHO. 

You don't store a password in the connection service file.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe