From: Warren Young
Date: July 14 2007 4:30am
Subject: Re: Connection::connect() interface is changing
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Jim Wallace wrote:
> 
> FWIW, in my code, the db parameters are passed in from a config file so
> I specify up to port every time.

I do like the automatic determination of connection parameters from just 
the server_addr value in the new code, but I don't see why you can't 
have it both ways:

	Connection(blah, blah, server_addr = 0, port = 0);

If port is zero and there is a colon in server_addr followed by 
something parseable as a port or service name, it can use that.  If port 
is given an explicit value, let that override anything it finds in the 
server address parameter.  If there is no colon and no explicit port is 
given, it takes the default.