Re: BUG #5304: psql using conninfo fails in connecting to the server - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> Fujii Masao wrote:
>> In HEAD, psql using conninfo fails in connecting to the server as follows.
>>
>> $ bin/psql "host=localhost"
>> psql: FATAL:  database "host=localhost" does not exist
>>
>> This is because the recently-introduced PQconnectStartParams()
>> doesn't handle correctly the dbname parameter containing '='.

> Hmm, I don't think that was ever really supposed to work, it was
> accidental that it did.

No, it was intentional.

            regards, tom lane