On 11/24/2011 05:21 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> A coworker also suggested using a different designator:
>
> postgresqli:///path/to/socket:5433/database
> postgresqli://:5433/database
This is not unprecedented. An example is how CUPS handles this problem
when connecting printers using URIs:
http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/network.html where you might see
this for the usual port:
lpd://ip-address-or-hostname/queue
And this for AppSocket AKA JetDirect:
socket://ip-address-or-hostname
I am certainly not going to defend printing setup with CUPS as a model
worth emulating, just noting the similarity here. I think we'll save
miles of user headaches if there's only one designator.
