Re: Docs for service file

Oh, so there is one central server with connection information.
Interesting. Might be easier to just NFS mount the pg_service.conf file
on all the machines.... at least easier for us. ;-)

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Justin Clift wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> <snip>
> >>b) A "service name" that works across-the-wire. Oracle has something
> >>like this, and has a "service name lookup daemon" thing in place that
> >>remote clients can connect to through TCP in order to find out the
> >>necessary parameters for connecting to a particular service.
> >>
> >>We should probably clarify a bit more on things before starting into voting.
> >
> >
> > It seems strange how you would know where to get that connection info.
> > I guess it could be used by just specifying the port number and host
> > name, and some daemon would listen and set params. That seems too
> > involved to me, though.
>
> Well, from memory the Oracle service name listener thing can be setup to
> hold information about instances of oracle databases (services) on many
> different servers, with whatever connection info is needed.
>
> Equivalent functionality for us would be something like:
>
> PG Service Name daemon
> IP = 192.168.10.100, TCP = something
>
> Holding info about:
>
> Service name: Primary1
> IP = 192.168.10.1, TCP = 5432, db name = foo
>
> Service name: Primary2
> IP = 192.168.10.10, TCP = 5432, db name = foo2
>
> Service name: Dev1
> IP = 192.168.10.2, TCP = 5432, db name = dev1
>
> Service name: Dev2
> IP = 192.168.10.2, TCP = 5432, db name = dev2
>
> Service name: Dev3
> IP = 192.168.10.2, TCP = 5433, db name = dev3
>
> Service name: Dev4
> IP = 192.168.10.3, TCP = 5432, db name = dev2b
>
> Service name: Dev5
> IP = 192.168.10.3, TCP = 5433, db name = dev3b
>
> So, remote clients are configured to connect to the PG Service Name
> daemon first in order to find out where their desired database is, etc.
>
> Not sure how other DB systems do this kind of thing, this example is
> just one part of how Oracle does it's service name resolution stuff.
>
> :-)
>
> Regards and best wishes,
>
> Justin Clift
>
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