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authorBruce Momjian2013-01-25 16:18:44 +0000
committerBruce Momjian2013-01-25 16:18:44 +0000
commitdc33b0961eb9628290c29f465ef416c8991a3f0c (patch)
tree51cf3be00915aff5cf558d37e38e1c8a8db92258 /doc/src/sgml
parenta33c0045a86d128d175e94f472e575b7daaecb91 (diff)
docs: In ecpg, clarify how username/password colon parameters are used
Backpatch to 9.2. Patch from Alan B
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/src/sgml')
-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/ecpg.sgml5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ecpg.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ecpg.sgml
index 63aaf89b87f..bf01857a4c2 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ecpg.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ecpg.sgml
@@ -194,9 +194,12 @@ EXEC SQL CONNECT TO unix:postgresql://sql.mydomain.com/mydb AS myconnection USER
EXEC SQL BEGIN DECLARE SECTION;
const char *target = "mydb@sql.mydomain.com";
const char *user = "john";
+const char *passwd = "secret";
EXEC SQL END DECLARE SECTION;
...
-EXEC SQL CONNECT TO :target USER :user;
+EXEC SQL CONNECT TO :target USER :user USING :passwd;
+
+EXEC SQL CONNECT TO :target USER :user/:passwd;
</programlisting>
The last form makes use of the variant referred to above as
character variable reference. You will see in later sections how C