On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 08:44:23PM +0100, Daniel Carter wrote: > The original motivation for investigating this was setting up a web app > which could authenticate to a database server using a Kerberos ticket. Since > the web framework already needs to create a connection string (with database > name etc.) to set up the database connection, having an option here for the > ccache location makes it much more straightforward to specify than having to > save data out to environment variables (and makes things cleaner if there > are potentially multiple database connections going on at once in different > processes). > > There may well be a better way of going about this -- it's just that I can't > currently see an obvious way to get this kind of setup working using only > the environment variable.
The environment variable bit sounds like a fair argument to me. Please do not forget to add this patch and thread to the next commit fest: https://commitfest.postgresql.org/33/ You need a community account, and that's unfortunately too late for Postgres 14, but the development of 15 will begin at the beginning of July so it could be included there. -- Michael
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