Error when the password in the connection URI contains certain characters

[snahor]

Sorry if this is not the right place to report this or if it has been reported already.

With any of ?, {, ^, ]:

Error: parse ...

FTR these work:

$ psql postgres://user:123qwe}@postgres:5432/db?sslmode=disable
$ psql postgres://user:123qwe^@postgres:5432/db?sslmode=disable
$ psql postgres://user:123qwe?@postgres:5432/db?sslmode=disable
$ psql postgres://user:123qwe]@postgres:5432/db?sslmode=disable

BTW, I got those errors when I was using env vars with drone and pgweb.

[rogerhub]

Just a guess: Have you tried URL encoding the special characters? https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/percent-encoding

[dwest]

Just FYI, percent encoding special characters doesn't appear to work if you use the key=value form instead of the url form of the connection string. If someone else is fighting with that same issue switch to the url form and see if it works.

[onesick]

Whoever have this parsing problem.
gobuffalo/pop#402 (comment)