From 23425ac769bf47cd6e95c57179281c8039de6440 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: sjonpaulbrown <sjonpaulbrown@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 31 May 2024 17:48:02 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] wip

---
 backend/main/server/app.go | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/backend/main/server/app.go b/backend/main/server/app.go
index 099ce519..b8cac370 100644
--- a/backend/main/server/app.go
+++ b/backend/main/server/app.go
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"io/ioutil"
 	"net/http"
+	"net/url"
 	"os"
 	"strings"
 
@@ -212,7 +213,7 @@ func (a *App) ConnectDB(username, password, host, port, dbname string) {
 	database.Context = context.Background()
 	database.Name = dbname
 
-	connectionString := fmt.Sprintf("postgres://%s:%s@%s/%s", username, password, host, dbname)
+	connectionString := ToUnixURL(false, username, password, dbname, host)
 
 	pconf, confErr := pgxpool.ParseConfig(connectionString)
 	if confErr != nil {
@@ -235,3 +236,30 @@ func (a *App) ConnectDB(username, password, host, port, dbname string) {
 		log.Info().Msgf("Successfully created Postgres conn pool")
 	}
 }
+
+func ToUnixURL(ssl bool, username, password, db, host string) string {
+	urlStr := "postgresql://"
+
+	if len(username) == 0 {
+		username = "postgres"
+	}
+	urlStr += username
+
+	if len(password) > 0 {
+		urlStr = urlStr + ":" + url.PathEscape(password)
+	}
+	urlStr += "@"
+
+	urlStr += "/" + url.PathEscape(db)
+
+	// Append query parameters
+	urlStr += "?" + "host=" + host
+
+	mode := ""
+	if !ssl {
+		mode = "&sslmode=disable"
+	}
+
+	urlStr += mode
+	return urlStr
+}