Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
>
>> OK, good to know. Does the patch need documentation too?
>>
>
> Certainly.
>
That's why I haven't committed it yet. I intend to put info in the psql
manual as well as in the libpq reference.
>
>> Are we
>> deprecating the psql options now duplicated by the new functionality,
>> like host/port/username/password?
>>
>
> I'd vote not. This is just another way to do it.
>
>
>
I entirely agree. It lets you do some nice things that aren't obvious
now, like:
psql 'service=foo sslmode=require'
cheers
andrew
