[Libreoffice] PostgreSQL-SDBC in LO: build system help

Michael Meeks michael.meeks at suse.com
Mon Nov 28 06:19:21 PST 2011


On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 14:23 +0100, Alex Thurgood wrote:
> > However, I have no idea how you would enter the strings for a remote db
> > instance, in particular, the parameter separators.
...
> OK, I seem to have figured it out from re-reading libpq documentation. 
> The URL field accepts connection strings of pair KEYWORD=VALUE, so one 
> can enter :
> 
> host=10.0.0.1 dbname=mydb

	Gosh - it sounds like an horrific user experience :-)

	Presumably in the star-treck future, having a per-backend UI with
key/value pairs specified that can be presented pleasantly with
descriptions, widgets etc. filled out would be rather nicer.

	Perhaps an easy hack ;-)

	ATB,

		Michael.

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