On Monday, November 12, 2018, PG Bug reporting form <
noreply@postgresql.org> wrote:
pg_dump's docs says this command can use connection string on --dbname
argument[1].
A command line argument and the parameter it links to are two separate things.
Also, the libpq environments variables's documentation says PGDATABASE
behaves the same as the dbname connection parameter[2].
Which the linked portion then says:
"In certain contexts, the value is checked for extended formats;"
I try to pass connection string on PGDATABASE environment variable, but it
does [not] work.
Which implies that PGDATABASE envvar interpretation is not one of those places where the extended URI connection string format can be passed; instead the environment variables covering the different parts need to be used. Using them works one-to-one with the plain meaning of the parameters they link to.
Probably the docs could use a note to that effect.
David J.