Connection string

A connection string looks like follows: alias=schema://user:password@url[database], where:

alias is a database alias, a unique string used to refer the database
schema is a connection schema. Currently supported is tcp and socket
user is a database user name
password is the users's password
url for tcp is in form host:port, for unix socket - file path
database is a database name

See Also: tip::db::pg::db_service; tip::db::pg::connection_options

Database alias

A short unique string that can be used to refer a database. It is passed as a part of a connection string when registering a connection and is used later to retrieve a connection to a database via the tip::db::pg::db_service interface or the tip::db::pg::query interface.

See Also: tip::db::pg::dbalias; tip::db::pg::db_service; tip::db::pg::query