On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
>> Probably yes, for consistency. I have been thinking for a while,
>> however, that it would be very good if the tools also supported a
>> conninfo string, so you don't have to invent a new option for every new
>> connection option. psql already supports that.
>
> libpq has an option to expand a connection string if it's passed in
> the database name, it seems. The problem is that this is done on the
> dbname parameter - won't work in pg_dump for example, without special
> treatment, since the db name is used in the client there.
If conninfo is specified, you can just append the "dbname=replication"
into it and pass it to libpq as dbname. I don't think that supporting
conninfo is difficult.
Regards,
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