Re: PQconninfo function for libpq

On 11/27/12 4:20 PM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 10:13 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
>> On 11/22/12 6:44 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>> I'm thinking it might be a better idea to just have PG_CONNINFO_NORMAL
>>> and PG_CONNINFO_PASSWORD (which still make sense to separate),
>>
>> What is the use case for separating them?
> 
> Getting a connection string that doesn't contain sensitive information
> like a password. In order to show it in a dialog box, for example.

There is already the PQconninfoOption.dispchar field for this purpose.