Re: Are there any web-client-side calls to the database from pg admin?

Dave Page <[email protected]> Wed, 4 Sep 2019 09:22:41 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.pgadmin
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Hi

On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 9:02 AM Aidan Hoolachan <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> We are using AWS to host a postgresql server and we would like to keep the
> database as isolated as possible from external networks. We plan to provide
> a route from the pgAdmin host to the database, and then to provide a http
> route from pgAdmin to our network for access in the browser. We hope that
> pgAdmin does not require direct access from the browser to the database.
>
> Does the site need to connect to the database from the web browser client
> or is the connection established entirely on the web server?
>

No, the browser doesn't need to connect to the database servers.


>
> Are there any security features of pgAdmin that we might not be aware of?
>

I have no idea of what you're aware of so can't really answer that! What in
particular are you looking for?

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