Re: psql - better support pipe line

On 8/27/15 8:37 AM, Pavel Stehule wrote:

    I don't think we can detect and remove the default values from this
    output in a reliable way?


This is pretty difficult - any parameter can be important, and hard to
identify default values on client side without connect to server side. I
don't see any other way, than hold bitmap for identification entered
values and default values from the input.

That would be nice, but probably not that big a deal.

What I think would be more useful is a way to exclude the password if you didn't need it.

It occurs to me the most flexible thing that could be done here would be providing a libpq function that spits out JSON connection parameters and have psql turn that into a variable. It would be easy to feed that to a SQL statement and do whatever you want with it at that point, including format it to a connection URI.