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Re: Should psql support URI syntax?

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

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From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: jd@commandprompt.com
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2011-03-31T23:32:32Z
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On 03/31/2011 07:25 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Most database connectors/frameworks nowadays support a URI style
> connection string. Something like:
>
> pgsql://user:pass@host/database
>
> Do we think psql should support this style of connection string?
>
>

Syntactic sugar aside, what is the advantage of that over a conninfo string?

cheers

andrew