Re: WIP: URI connection string support for libpq - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

* Alex Shulgin:

> Yeah, this is really appealing, however how do you tell if the part
> after the last slash is a socket directory name or a dbname?  E.g:
>
> psql postgres:///path/to/different/socket/dir        (default dbname)
> psql postgres:///path/to/different/socket/dir/other  (dbname=other ?)

The HTTP precent is to probe the file system until you find something.
Most HTTP servers have something similar to the PATH_INFO variable which
captures trailing path segments.

It's ugly, but it's standard practice, and seems better than a separate
-d parameter (which sort of defeats the purpose of URIs).

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