Re: Re: Feature proposal, DBURL: psql pgsql://joe:p4zzw0rd@example.org:2345/dbname

2017-07-05 16:29 GMT+02:00 Thomas Kellerer <spam_eater(at)gmx(dot)net>:

> Hans Schou schrieb am 05.07.2017 um 14:27:
> > The dburl (or dburi) has become common to use by many systems
> > connecting to a database. The feature is that one can pass all
> > parameters in a string, which has similar pattern as http-URI do.
> >
> > Especially when using psql in a script, having the credentials in one
> string is convenient.
> >
> > The syntax could be:
> > [scheme[<+>dsn]]://[[username[:[password]](at)][host][:port][/[
> dbname][/[[table[/[column[,column...]*]]]|sql]]]
>
> Besides the fact that something like that is already possible:
>
> What's the use of "table" and "column" in the URI? You connect to a
> database, not to a table.
>

With 'table' the idea was to do a "SELECT * FROM table" on that.
With 'column' added only that or those columns would be listed.

The "sql" part in the end was supposed to be a SQL-statement to be
executed, like:
psql "postgresql://localhost/dbname/INSERT INTO foo VALUES($RANDOM)"
which should be equal to
echo "INSERT INTO foo VALUES($RANDOM)" | psql
postgresql://localhost/dbname

./hans