Connect to an URI in postgres

Question

I\'m guessing this is a pretty basic question, but I can\'t figure out why:

import psycopg2
psycopg2.connect(\"postgresql://postgres:postgres@localhost/postgres\         


        

Answer 1

The connection string passed to psycopg2.connect is not parsed by psycopg2: it is passed verbatim to libpq. Support for connection URIs was added in PostgreSQL 9.2.