Hi list, Hope this is the right place to suggest that change in the docs, otherwise is there a ticket management system for this stuff somewhere?
Paying attention to the documentation at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/ecpg-connect.html and subsequent versions of the page (I am using 8.4), there is the option to specify "user-name" in various ways. However this may be confused as a single parameter to the connect string while it is a combination of 1 or 2 parameters that cannot go into a single string. To avoid confusion I suggest providing a complete example in "Here are some examples of CONNECT statements:" as follows: EXEC SQL CONNECT TO m...@sql.mydomain.com; EXEC SQL CONNECT TO unix:postgresql://sql.mydomain.com/mydb AS myconnection USER john; EXEC SQL BEGIN DECLARE SECTION; const char *target = "m...@sql.mydomain.com"; const char *user = "john"; const char *passwd = "secret"; EXEC SQL END DECLARE SECTION; ... EXEC SQL CONNECT TO :target USER :user USING :passwd; or EXEC SQL CONNECT TO :target USER :user/:passwd; To make the distinction of parameters and string variables evident. Alan
