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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="34.17. The Connection Service File">Section 34.17</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
+   <a class="ulink" href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1959" target="_top">RFC 1959</a>
+   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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