Hi all
While writing some code that takes a connstring and adds some parameters, I noticed that PQconninfoParse doesn't play well with PQconnectdbParams.
PQconnectdbParams takes a pair of equal-length arrays, one for keys and one for values, each terminated by null elements. But PQconninfoParse returns a an array of PQconninfoOption .
This means the client has to do a bunch of fiddling to turn a parsed conninfo into something that can be passed to PQconnectdbParams . This seems bizarre. Am I missing something obvious?
libpq internally uses connectOptions1 which calls parse_connection_string, the same function used by PQconninfoParse. But there's no connect variant exposed to users to use it.
Anyone object to adding one? Like:
PQconnectStartInfo(PQconninfoOption options)
PQconnectdbInfo(PQconninfoOption options)
?
PQconnectStartParams(...) and PQconnectdbParams(...) would become thin wrappers around it.
It's a pity that the name PQconnectdbParams is already taken, really.
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