Re: RFC: Extend psycopg2.connect to accept all valid parameters?

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Federico Di Gregorio <fog(at)dndg(dot)it> wrote:

> Looks good but I have a question: does automatic conversion always
> generates a valid connection string? Do we need quoting for some of the
> parameters?

No: just find the docs of the connection string escaping rule. They
are not implemented in psycopg, neither before the patch.

> The main idea behind .connect() was to use dsn for the
> generic case and provider keyword arguments as a utility for the most
> common cases while the patch actually says "it's ok to use kwargs for
> everything" and if we do that then it should work out of the box.
>
> But I almost always use username+password only so I don't know if some
> parameters need special treatment.

PQconnectdb says: To write an empty value, or a value containing
spaces, surround it with single quotes, e.g., keyword = 'a value'.
Single quotes and backslashes within the value must be escaped with a
backslash, i.e., \' and \\.

I'd rather do this in Python than in C, so at this point the patch is
basically what I've written yesterday minus the **kwargs pass-through.
Or, alternatively, a few hundred lines of C with dynamic memory
allocation, tricky conversion of Python objects to byte strings and a
couple of off-by-one errors peppered in less tested code paths...

-- Daniele