spinframework / spinframework/spin
Connecting using a simple postgresql url shouldn't be this convoluted
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Description
Connecting via postgresql url (localhost) currently looks like this:
setting a variable: postgresql://postgres:postgres@localhost:5433
setting allowed_outbound_hosts = ["postgres://localhost:5433"]
in code: pg:Connection(postgresql_url + db_name)
Ideally you set a single variable and you can use it within the app. We are seemingly parsing and expecting differing representations of the same value (in multiple places) for no good reason.
Also, none of this behaviour is documented anywhere. The docs as they currently are are misleading.
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