Re: Notes on implementing URI syntax for libpq

* 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
specifiedusing a URI parameter like this: 
>
>   psql -d postgresql://example.net:5433/mydb

How would you specifiy a local port/UNIX domain socket?

Would it be possible to add something like
 psql -d postgresql+ssh://fweimer@db5/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432

similar to what Subversion supports?  (This might have security
implications when used from untrusted PHP scripts.)

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