Обсуждение: [patch] Add support for connection strings to createuser and dropuser

All of the other CLI tools seems to support connection strings via the 
PGDATABASE environment variable and the --maintenance-db command line 
option, but this functionality is missing from createuser and dropuser. 
Attached is a patch to bring them up to par with the other CLI tools.

There is an argument to be made for renaming or aliasing the 
--maintenance-db parameter as --connection-string or similar for all of 
these tools of course, but all of the others (except createdb and dropdb 
afaics) accepts a "raw" connection string on the command line so it 
might not matter much for them.

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Anders Åstrand
Percona

On 2026-01-16 15:22, Anders Åstrand wrote:
> All of the other CLI tools seems to support connection strings via the 
> PGDATABASE environment variable and the --maintenance-db command line 
> option, but this functionality is missing from createuser and 
> dropuser. Attached is a patch to bring them up to par with the other 
> CLI tools.
>
> There is an argument to be made for renaming or aliasing the 
> --maintenance-db parameter as --connection-string or similar for all 
> of these tools of course, but all of the others (except createdb and 
> dropdb afaics) accepts a "raw" connection string on the command line 
> so it might not matter much for them.
>
The idea behind this patch was to add support for OAuth to these tools
in the same way as it's supported for other CLI tools, but maybe the
interest in keeping these tools maintained is so low we could just
remove them instead?

-- 
Anders Åstrand
Percona