| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Should psql support URI syntax? |
| Date: | 2011-03-31 23:34:43 |
| Message-ID: | 1301614483.24264.83.camel@jd-desktop |
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On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 19:32 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
> On 03/31/2011 07:25 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Most database connectors/frameworks nowadays support a URI style
> > connection string. Something like:
> >
> > pgsql://user:pass(at)host/database
> >
> > Do we think psql should support this style of connection string?
> >
> >
>
> Syntactic sugar aside, what is the advantage of that over a conninfo string?
I would think it would be purely syntatic sugar really, which does
incorporate a familiar interface for those who are working in different
worlds (.Net/Drupal/JAVA) etc...
Perhaps programability would also be useful from a shell/system script
perspective.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
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