Re: WIP: URI connection string support for libpq

Florian Weimer <fweimer(at)bfk(dot)de> writes:

> * Alex Shulgin:
>
>> Yeah, this is really appealing, however how do you tell if the part
>> after the last slash is a socket directory name or a dbname? E.g:
>>
>> psql postgres:///path/to/different/socket/dir (default dbname)
>> psql postgres:///path/to/different/socket/dir/other (dbname=other ?)
>
> The HTTP precent is to probe the file system until you find something.
> Most HTTP servers have something similar to the PATH_INFO variable which
> captures trailing path segments.
>
> It's ugly, but it's standard practice, and seems better than a separate
> -d parameter (which sort of defeats the purpose of URIs).

Hm, do you see anything what's wrong with "?dbname=other" if you don't
like a separate -d?

--
Alex