Re: Notes on implementing URI syntax for libpq - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: Notes on implementing URI syntax for libpq
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Msg-id C80ACCC0-1416-4A7A-B7D1-E10836B5D4BB@gmail.com
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In response to Re: Notes on implementing URI syntax for libpq  (Alexander Shulgin <ash@commandprompt.com>)
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Re: Notes on implementing URI syntax for libpq
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On Nov 24, 2011, at 1:57 AM, Alexander Shulgin <ash@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> While it is really tempting to provide support for all that fancy stuff (or at least support "user:password@host"
partinstead of the ugly "?user=&password=") this will make psql URIs backward-incompatible with the JDBC syntax, which
isexactly what we want to avoid. 

I think it would be really weird not to support user:pw@host:port.  You can presumably also support the JDBC style for
backwardcompatibility, but I don't think we should adopt that syntax as project standard. 

...Robert

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