pgsql: Doc: clarify behavior of PQconnectdbParams().

Started by Tom Laneover 5 years ago1 messagescomitters
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#1Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us

Doc: clarify behavior of PQconnectdbParams().

The documentation omitted the critical tidbit that a keyword-array entry
is simply ignored if its corresponding value-array entry is NULL or an
empty string; it will *not* override any previously-obtained value for
the parameter. (See conninfo_array_parse().) I'd supposed that would
force the setting back to default, which is what led me into bug #16746;
but it doesn't.

While here, I couldn't resist the temptation to do some copy-editing,
both in the description of PQconnectdbParams() and in the section
about connection URI syntax.

Discussion: /messages/by-id/931505.1606618746@sss.pgh.pa.us

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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/1eb499a8a5e6aa06f5bd8d53f2119e74efdd3db7

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