[emacs-berlin] A new header arg option for SQL source blocks
Andreas Röhler
andreas.roehler at easy-emacs.de
Thu Sep 26 11:58:52 UTC 2019
Hi Stefano,
that was very interesting, thanks a lot. Special thanks also to Gary and
our host.
Emacs feels like an eternal advent calendar, opening doors all over the
year ;)
Am 26.09.19 um 10:01 schrieb Stefano Rodighiero:
> Hi all,
>
> thank you for the meeting last evening!
>
> I think my illustration of the patch for Org-mode Babel was a
> bit rushed, and that I didn't make the two parts I presented
> clear enough. Moreover, someone expressed interest in seeing
> the code, so here some explanations.
>
> 1. There will be a new feature in org-mode allowing users to specify
> a `:dbconnection` header arg for SQL source blocks. This way,
> instead of writing connection parameters directly in the header,
> which is tedious, error-prone and exposes credentials as plain-text
> content, one can use `sql-connection-alist`, a data structure users
> can redefine (defined in `sql.el`, practically a dictionary of
> names -> connection params, used for example in `sql-connect`).
> Org-mode maintainers kindly merged my patch
> (https://code.orgmode.org/bzg/org-mode/src/master/lisp/ob-sql.el#L179)
> so it will available at some point
> in the future.
>
> 2. "How can I maintain `sql-connection-alist`?"
> There are many options. In my configuration there's a mechanism
> that keeps `sql-connection-alist` in sync with `~/.pgpass`.
> You can see it starting from here:
> https://github.com/larsen/emacs-configuration/blob/master/larsen-sql.el#L70
>
> s.
>
>
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