PQconnectdbParams vs PQconninfoParse

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)

?

--