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authorBruce Momjian2007-09-14 14:31:22 +0000
committerBruce Momjian2007-09-14 14:31:22 +0000
commitf6a168e2c38bbf89a6fe6d896242988ee1305121 (patch)
treea423657e459ce7b6a80242b2a1c7bd9ee41a711b
parent13e26073bda7e5fb91c8724670357f2e0541a17d (diff)
Add LDAP URL documentation.
Albe Laurenz
-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml15
-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml4
-rw-r--r--src/interfaces/libpq/pg_service.conf.sample3
3 files changed, 19 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml
index 448a24d074c..1c033e30841 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml,v 1.243 2007/09/02 01:13:55 momjian Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml,v 1.244 2007/09/14 14:31:22 momjian Exp $ -->
<chapter id="libpq">
<title><application>libpq</application> - C Library</title>
@@ -5085,6 +5085,19 @@ defaultNoticeProcessor(void *arg, const char *message)
ldap://ldap.mycompany.com/dc=mycompany,dc=com?uniqueMember?one?(cn=mydatabase)
</synopsis>
</para>
+
+ <para>
+ You can also mix regular service file entries with LDAP lookups.
+ A complete example for a stanza in <filename>pg_service.conf</filename>
+ would be:
+ <synopsis>
+ # 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=*)
+ </synopsis>
+ <para>
</sect1>
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml
index c01f1f5cc8a..bf63e162d20 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<!--
-$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml,v 1.194 2007/08/22 04:45:20 tgl Exp $
+$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml,v 1.195 2007/09/14 14:31:22 momjian Exp $
PostgreSQL documentation
-->
@@ -567,6 +567,8 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
<programlisting>
$ <userinput>psql "service=myservice sslmode=require"</userinput>
</programlisting>
+ This way you can also use LDAP for connection parameter lookup as
+ described in <xref linkend="libpq-ldap">.
See <xref linkend="libpq-connect"> for more information on all the
available connection options.
</para>
diff --git a/src/interfaces/libpq/pg_service.conf.sample b/src/interfaces/libpq/pg_service.conf.sample
index 8a22fda95a2..de60028177c 100644
--- a/src/interfaces/libpq/pg_service.conf.sample
+++ b/src/interfaces/libpq/pg_service.conf.sample
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@
# A service is a set of named connection parameters. You may specify
# multiple services in this file. Each starts with a service name in
# brackets. Subsequent lines have connection configuration parameters of
-# the pattern "param=value". A sample configuration for postgres is
+# the pattern "param=value" or LDAP URLs starting with "ldap://"
+# to look up such parameters. A sample configuration for postgres is
# included in this file. Lines beginning with '#' are comments.
#
# Copy this to your sysconf directory (typically /usr/local/pgsql/etc) and