| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | Adrian von Bidder <avbidder(at)fortytwo(dot)ch> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Should psql support URI syntax? |
| Date: | 2011-04-03 09:32:34 |
| Message-ID: | 1301823154.5146.2.camel@vanquo.pezone.net |
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On fre, 2011-04-01 at 09:12 +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote:
> Since URI stings are popular, it might really make sense if pg could
> recommend a preferred form of postgres URI strings (and obviously
> implement it in libpq). For the non-libpq APIs (there's at least
> http://python.projects.postgresql.org/, don't know about others), it
> would still be just a recommendation that they could follow or not
> follow, so the situation wouldn't change too much from today, I fear.
Well, there isn't any requirement that URIs be
prot://hostname:port/something
They just have to be
prot:something
So you could just turn the existing conninfo syntax into a URI by doing
something like
postgresql:dbname=foo%20hostname=bar
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