Harold Giménez <harold.gimenez@gmail.com> writes:
> I have interest in the URI connection string support patch[1], so I'm
> in the process of reviewing it. I have a couple of comments and
> questions:
Hello, thank you for your interest and the review!
> 1. I see no tests in the patch. I'd like to start getting together a
> set of tests, likely based on the connection string permutations found
> on Greg Smith's response[2]. However I don't find an obvious place to
> put them. They could possibly live in the test/examples directory.
> Another thought is to use dblink in a test, although it may be
> problematic to depend on a contrib package for a test, to say the
> least. Any thoughts on how to test this are most welcome.
I was also curious on how to add any sort of regression testing (likely
using psql,) but didn't get any advice as far as I can recall.
> 2. The documentation/manual was not updated as part of this patch, so
> this is pending.
I've marked the patch as Work-In-Progress and specifically omitted
documentation changes until we settle on functionality.
> 3. I for one do prefer the `postgres` prefix, as opposed to
> `postgresql` for the reasons stated on an earlier thread [3]. In my
> opinion the best way to move forward is to support them both.
The updated v4 version of the patch does cover this:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2012-02/msg01141.php
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Alex