On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> wrote: >> Probably yes, for consistency. I have been thinking for a while, >> however, that it would be very good if the tools also supported a >> conninfo string, so you don't have to invent a new option for every new >> connection option. psql already supports that. > > libpq has an option to expand a connection string if it's passed in > the database name, it seems. The problem is that this is done on the > dbname parameter - won't work in pg_dump for example, without special > treatment, since the db name is used in the client there.
If conninfo is specified, you can just append the "dbname=replication" into it and pass it to libpq as dbname. I don't think that supporting conninfo is difficult. Regards, -- Fujii Masao NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION NTT Open Source Software Center -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
