Mapfile connection string for postgis

[Fernando Luyo]

The item DATA this badly written: 

    DATA     "<name field geometry> from <table>"

Example : 

    DATA     "The_geom from ag_sinabip_18"
    CONNECTION "user=postgres password=password dbname=mapas host=elcaro port=5432"
    CONNECTIONTYPE postgis 


These safe of the user? 

Fernado Luyo


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: rock well 
  To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU 
  Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 3:55 PM
  Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Mapfile connection string for postgis


  Hello all i was trying to connect postgis remote database from mapserver, so i included a connection string in the mapfile as 

  CONNECTIONTYPE POSTGIS 
  CONNECTION "host=remoteserverhostname user=postgres password=random1 dbname=tes port=5432"
  DATA "* from tablename"

  but this gives me the following errors

  Warning: [MapServer Error]: msPOSTGISLayerOpen(): couldnt make connection to DB with connect string 
  Error reported was 'FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user "postgres" '. 
  This error occured when trying to make a connection to the specified postgresql server. 

  I dont know if the connection string is right or not, or do we have to change anything in the configuration file for postgresql .....

  Thanks for your time and appreciate it .......
  kris


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