On Nov 24, 2011, at 1:57 AM, Alexander Shulgin <ash@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> While it is really tempting to provide support for all that fancy stuff (or at least support "user:password@host"
partinstead of the ugly "?user=&password=") this will make psql URIs backward-incompatible with the JDBC syntax, which
isexactly what we want to avoid.
I think it would be really weird not to support user:pw@host:port. You can presumably also support the JDBC style for
backwardcompatibility, but I don't think we should adopt that syntax as project standard.
...Robert