On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 19:32 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
> 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?
I would think it would be purely syntatic sugar really, which does
incorporate a familiar interface for those who are working in different
worlds (.Net/Drupal/JAVA) etc...
Perhaps programability would also be useful from a shell/system script
perspective.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
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