Re: WIP: URI connection string support for libpq

Cédric Villemain <cedric@2ndquadrant.fr>

From: Cédric Villemain <cedric@2ndquadrant.fr>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de>, Alex Shulgin <ash@commandprompt.com>, Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>
Date: 2012-02-25T19:37:01Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Le vendredi 24 février 2012 14:18:44, Florian Weimer a écrit :
> * Alex Shulgin:
> >> It's ugly, but it's standard practice, and seems better than a separate
> >> -d parameter (which sort of defeats the purpose of URIs).
> > 
> > Hm, do you see anything what's wrong with "?dbname=other" if you don't
> > like a separate -d?
> 
> It's not nice URI syntax, but it's better than an out-of-band mechanism.

I've not followed all the mails about this feature but I don't find it is a 
nice syntax too.

"?dbname=other" looks like dbname is an argument, but dbname is a requirement 
for postgresql connexion.

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