Re: BUG #5304: psql using conninfo fails in connecting to the server

2010/2/1 Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>:
> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Heikki Linnakangas
> <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>> Fujii Masao wrote:
>>> In HEAD, psql using conninfo fails in connecting to the server as follows.
>>>
>>>   $ bin/psql "host=localhost"
>>>   psql: FATAL:  database "host=localhost" does not exist
>>>
>>> This is because the recently-introduced PQconnectStartParams()
>>> doesn't handle correctly the dbname parameter containing '='.
>>
>> Hmm, I don't think that was ever really supposed to work, it was
>> accidental that it did. I certainly didn't realize you could do that.
>> The documented way to do that is:
>>
>> bin/psql --host=localhost
>
> Really? According to the document, psql using conninfo seems to
> be supported.
>
> http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/app-psql.html#R2-APP-PSQL-CONNECTING

Yes, that is definitely supposed to work. It was intentionally added
in 8.3 and is very useful :-)

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