"Andrew Dunstan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We change libpq from time to time. Besides, how many DBs are there that > match the name pattern /^conn:.*=/ ? My guess is mighty few. So I don't > expect lots of surprise.
Um, but how many DB names have an "=" in them at all? Basically what this proposal is about is migrating from separated dbname/user/host/port/etc parameters to a unified conninfo parameter. That seems to me like a good long-term objective, and so I'm willing to break a few eggs on the way to the omelet, as long as we're not breaking any very likely usages. So: who here has a database with "=" in the name? And hands up if you've got a database whose name begins with "conn:"? I'm betting zero response rate on both of those, so see no reason to contort the long-term definition for a very marginal difference in the extent of backwards compatibility ... regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org