Re: [PATCH] Add PQconninfoParseParams and PQconninfodefaultsMerge to libpq

On Tuesday, February 26, 2013 1:36 PM Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> On 26.02.2013 09:06, Amit Kapila wrote:
> > On Monday, February 25, 2013 11:26 PM Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> >> On 21.02.2013 16:09, Amit Kapila wrote:
> >>> On Thursday, February 21, 2013 12:46 AM Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> >> I've committed those patches, with some further changes. If you have
> >> the
> >> time, please take another look at the committed patches. Thanks!
> >
> > 1. For pg_dumpall, incase user gives dbname in connection string, for
> ex.
> > "user=amit dbname=db_regress port=5434"
> > it will be ignored and postgres (default database name) will be
> used.
>
> Yeah, that is mentioned in the docs.

Sorry, I have missed that part, this just came to me when I was looking at
the code.

>The other option would be to use
> the database name from the connection string for the initial
> connection,
> ie. the same as specifying a database name with the -l option.

This is what come to my mind initially, as if it is allowed with -l option
it is better if the same should be allowed through connection string as
well.
We are ignoring for pg_basebackup as well, but in pg_basebackup there is no
way for user to
specify database name.

With Regards,
Amit Kapila.