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I've found the documentation on this part could be improved since it took me way longer than it should have to set this up.

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Thanks for your submission @OlisCode!

@mstrandboge and @skartikey let's ignore the linter error for now as we would need to change the structure of the readme, i.e. remove the gerneric DSN and other generic driver specific sub-headers to please the linter.

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@OlisCode Thanks for the contribution!

@skartikey skartikey merged commit ca50b28 into influxdata:master Jan 20, 2026
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