Re: PGAdmin - access through proxy

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 12:04 AM, Guillaume Lelarge
> <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info> wrote:
>> On Tue, 2012-05-08 at 22:16 +0100, Ciro Martins wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am a teacher at a Portuguese university, and we are using pgadmin to
>>> manage our Postgre databases.
>>> We would like to access the Postgre Server through a proxy. However, we
>>> could not find any option in the pgadmin to configure a proxy address in
>>> version 1.14. Since version 1.4 had that option, we would like to know
>>> if there exists any way to do this in the last 1.14 version of pgadmin.
>>>
>>
>> Not sure which option you're talking about, but we try not to remove
>> option. So I would be surprised if that was the case.
>
> As far as I'm aware there is no such thing as a proxy server for
> PostgreSQL, unless you count pgPool or pgBouncer - and pgAdmin should
> connect through them just fine without any special options. We've
> certainly never removed any features for connecting through a proxy
> (they were never there in the first place).

It should work through SOCKS proxies (postgresql connections in
general, not sure about pgadmin). But libpq has never had native socks
support as far as I know - but you should be able to use something
like tsocks with it.

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