Re: libpq compression

On 7 June 2018 at 04:01, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
wrote:

> On 6/6/18 13:20, Konstantin Knizhnik wrote:
> > Well, psql really allows to specify complete connection string with -d
> > options (although it is not mentioned in help).
> > But still I think that it is inconvenient to require user to write
> > complete connection string to be able to specify compression option,
> > while everybody prefer to use -h, -U, -p options to specify
> > correspondent components of connection string.
>
> I recommend that you avoid derailing your effort by hinging it on this
> issue. You can always add command-line options after the libpq support
> is in.
>

Strongly agree. Let libpq handle it first with the core protocol support
and connstr parsing, add convenience flags later.

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