Re: connect external app via pgadmin

Andrzej,

QGIS is just an example as I use it in combination with postgis in order to
work in mapping GIS elements.
With odbc I still need to open up the server ports to the outside world
which is what I want to avoid.

regards,
Bastiaan

On Wed, 12 Aug 2020 at 11:43, androxkentaki <androxkentaki(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> i don't know what id Qgis and why You want to do it via pgAdmin...
>
> But did You consider using ODBC connection and its driver?
>
> śr., 12 sie 2020 o 08:58 bw <bwakkie(at)gmail(dot)com> napisał(a):
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> As I do not like to open-up my postgresql port to the outside world and
>> managing users via pgadmin is very user friendly. I was wondering if
>> somehow it would be possible to give external applications like Qgis for
>> instance access to the database via pgadmin?
>>
>> For example in qgis in order to access the database it needs to connect
>> directly to the postgresql port and I have to create a linux user for them.
>> I do not want that. I rather manage this inside pgadmin. If qgis would
>> somehow be able to connect to the db via a pgadmin api that would be really
>> great.
>>
>> regards,
>> Bastiaan
>>
>
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