On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 06:20:42PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > is not in libpq's current sources anymore. I fully agree with Peter E's
> > reasons for removing it, too. We do not need to overload the definition
> > of libpq's dbname parameter.
Why? Sorry, it seems I missed his mail.
> Ouch, it *is* documented in ecpg(1). I guess if ecpg wants to provide
> this syntax (which it probably should, since the "sql connect to" syntax
> doesn't have any other provisions for host name, port, etc.) then it could
> take the code from libpq (it's still in there I think) and do the parsing
> before calling PQsetdbLogin().
This is a possibility of course. But why should this syntax be taken away
from other apps using libpq?
Michael
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