Joe Conway wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Refactoring doesn't seem like an easy way to fix this, because of the
>> problem that the behavior of pulling up defaults is part of the API
>> specification for PQconndefaults().
>>
>> Thoughts?
>
> Hmm, I could have sworn I looked for that, and saw it elsewhere. Anyway,
> you are obviously correct.
>
> conninfo_parse() is presently only called from a few places -- maybe we
> should have conninfo_parse() really just parse, and create a new
> conninfo_get_missing() or some such that fills in missing values?
Maybe better:
static PQconninfoOption *
conninfo_parse(const char *conninfo, PQExpBuffer errorMessage, bool fill_defaults, bool
*password_from_string)
There are only three call sites including the new one. The two originals
could use fill_defaults == true, and PQconninfoParse could use false.
Joe