On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 1:08 PM Egashira, Yusuke <egashira.yusuke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > According to my tests, I think that the ECPG's connection_option seems not to accept '&' character as password anyhow... > ECPG CONNECT's connection_option seems to have some restricted characters. As far as I understand from <https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=blob;f=src/interfaces/ecpg/ecpglib/connect.c;h=ec01f67b61d5e8f0b88f84346451d2135a78b777;hb=HEAD#l603> unwanted characters are '&' and '='. Even if the connetion string seems an URL, it is managed in plain text without any sort of escaping. > I hope to this limitation will be documented because it causes confusion. If this is confirmed, I agree this should be documented. Luca