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

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