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- If <span class="application">libpq</span> has been compiled with LDAP support (option
- <code class="literal"><code class="option">--with-ldap</code></code> for <code class="command">configure</code>)
- it is possible to retrieve connection options like <code class="literal">host</code>
- or <code class="literal">dbname</code> via LDAP from a central server.
- The advantage is that if the connection parameters for a database change,
- the connection information doesn't have to be updated on all client machines.
- </p><p>
- LDAP connection parameter lookup uses the connection service file
- <code class="filename">pg_service.conf</code> (see <a class="xref" href="libpq-pgservice.html" title="33.16. The Connection Service File">Section 33.16</a>). A line in a
- <code class="filename">pg_service.conf</code> stanza that starts with
- <code class="literal">ldap://</code> will be recognized as an LDAP URL and an
- LDAP query will be performed. The result must be a list of
- <code class="literal">keyword = value</code> pairs which will be used to set
- connection options. The URL must conform to RFC 1959 and be of the
- form
- </p><pre class="synopsis">
- ldap://[<em class="replaceable"><code>hostname</code></em>[:<em class="replaceable"><code>port</code></em>]]/<em class="replaceable"><code>search_base</code></em>?<em class="replaceable"><code>attribute</code></em>?<em class="replaceable"><code>search_scope</code></em>?<em class="replaceable"><code>filter</code></em>
- </pre><p>
- where <em class="replaceable"><code>hostname</code></em> defaults to
- <code class="literal">localhost</code> and <em class="replaceable"><code>port</code></em>
- defaults to 389.
- </p><p>
- Processing of <code class="filename">pg_service.conf</code> is terminated after
- a successful LDAP lookup, but is continued if the LDAP server cannot
- be contacted. This is to provide a fallback with further LDAP URL
- lines that point to different LDAP servers, classical <code class="literal">keyword
- = value</code> pairs, or default connection options. If you would
- rather get an error message in this case, add a syntactically incorrect
- line after the LDAP URL.
- </p><p>
- A sample LDAP entry that has been created with the LDIF file
- </p><pre class="programlisting">
- version:1
- dn:cn=mydatabase,dc=mycompany,dc=com
- changetype:add
- objectclass:top
- objectclass:device
- cn:mydatabase
- description:host=dbserver.mycompany.com
- description:port=5439
- description:dbname=mydb
- description:user=mydb_user
- description:sslmode=require
- </pre><p>
- might be queried with the following LDAP URL:
- </p><pre class="programlisting">
- ldap://ldap.mycompany.com/dc=mycompany,dc=com?description?one?(cn=mydatabase)
- </pre><p>
- </p><p>
- You can also mix regular service file entries with LDAP lookups.
- A complete example for a stanza in <code class="filename">pg_service.conf</code>
- would be:
- </p><pre class="programlisting">
- # only host and port are stored in LDAP, specify dbname and user explicitly
- [customerdb]
- dbname=customer
- user=appuser
- ldap://ldap.acme.com/cn=dbserver,cn=hosts?pgconnectinfo?base?(objectclass=*)
- </pre><p>
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