Re: POLA violation with \c service= - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From David Fetter
Subject Re: POLA violation with \c service=
Date
Msg-id 20150304133338.GA3621@fetter.org
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In response to Re: POLA violation with \c service=  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: POLA violation with \c service=  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 09:52:55PM -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 5:05 PM, David Fetter <david@fetter.org> wrote:
> > So just to clarify, are you against back-patching the behavior
> > change, or the addition to src/common?
> 
> Mostly the latter.

So you're saying the former isn't a problem?  To recap, the behavior I
dug up was that sending a conninfo string or a URI to \c resulted in
\c's silently mangling same in a way that could only work accidentally.

Anyhow, patches have been posted for both approaches to all relevant
branches.

Cheers,
David.
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