Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of Thu Nov 24 13:57:17 +0200 2011:
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> I think it would be really weird not to support user:pw(at)host:port. You can presumably also support the JDBC style for backward compatibility, but I don't think we should adopt that syntax as project standard.
Well, I don't believe JDBC syntax is ideal either, but I don't recall any better option proposed in the original discussion: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2011-03/msg01945.php
Do you suggest that we should reconsider?
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Alex