Re: Notes on implementing URI syntax for libpq

Hey Alexander,

2011/11/24 Alexander Shulgin <ash(at)commandprompt(dot)com>

>
> Excerpts from Florian Weimer's message of Wed Nov 23 13:04:47 +0200 2011:
> >
> > * Alexander Shulgin:
> >
> > > This, in my opinion, is very similar to what we would like to achieve
> with the URI syntax, so the above could also be specified using a URI
> parameter like this:
> > >
> > > psql -d postgresql://example.net:5433/mydb
> >
> > How would you specifiy a local port/UNIX domain socket?
>
> Missed that in my previous reply.
>
> If host part of the URI points to localhost, the UNIX domain socket would
> be considered by libpq just as if you would pass "-h localhost -p 5433".
>
But what if the user wants to connect exactly via socket or
TCP/IP ?
And what if the user needs to specify a socket file name extension?

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