Re: Should psql support URI syntax?

Heyho!

On Friday 01 April 2011 02.39:25 Christopher Browne wrote:
> An advantage to this uri form is that it allows applications to be
> configured uniformly - I do not need to ask "is this using libpq, needing
> one sort of configuration, or Java, needing another?"
> 
> Rather, I may say, "here is a uri I may use with any of my applications"

Since URI stings are popular, it might really make sense if pg could 
recommend a preferred form of postgres URI strings (and obviously implement 
it in libpq).  For the non-libpq APIs (there's at least 
http://python.projects.postgresql.org/, don't know about others), it would 
still be just a recommendation that they could follow or not follow, so the 
situation wouldn't change too much from today, I fear.

cheers
-- vbi


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