Re: psql commandline conninfo

From: "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: "Casey Duncan" <casey(at)pandora(dot)com>
Cc: "Martijn van Oosterhout" <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, "PostgreSQL-development" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: psql commandline conninfo
Date: 2006-12-13 02:22:57
Message-ID: 1829.24.211.165.134.1165976577.squirrel@www.dunslane.net
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Casey Duncan wrote:

>
> I was speaking from and end-user point of view, but I see your point.
> It's certainly attractive to just patch libpq and be done. However,
> that does have the side-effect of implicitly propagating the behavior
> to all libpg client software. That may be more unpleasantly
> surprising to more people then just changing the built-in postgresql
> client utilities. But then again it could also be considered a
> feature 8^)

We change libpq from time to time. Besides, how many DBs are there that
match the name pattern /^conn:.*=/ ? My guess is mighty few. So I don't
expect lots of surprise.

cheers

andrew

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