Create new database connections in Quarkus during runtime - java

I have a java REST API application using Quarkus as the framework. The application uses a PostgreSQL database, which is configured via the application.properties config file for hibernate entities (using "quarkus-hibernate-orm" module) etc. However, there are cases where i will have to dynamically connect to a remote database (connection info will be supplied by parameters) to read and write data from during runtime as well. How do i go about this the best way with Quarkus? For simplicity reasons we can assume that the remote databases are of the same type (PostgreSQL) so we don't have to worry about whether the correct driver is locally available or not.
Is there something provided by Quarkus or the environment to establish these connections and read/write? i dont need an ORM layer here necessarily, as i may not know the structure beforehand either. Simple queries are also sufficient. When i try to research this subject i can only get information about static hibernate or datasource configurations in Quarkus, but i won't know what they look like beforehand. Basically, is there some kind of "db connection provider" etc. i should use or do i simply have to manually create new plain JDBC connections in my own code for it?

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