</para>

<para>

Connection<acronym>URI</acronym> needs to be encoded with

<ulinkurl="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-2.1">Percent-encoding</ulink>

if it includes symbols with special meaning in any of its parts.

Here isan example where equal sign (<literal>=</literal>) is replaced

with<literal>%3D</literal> andwhitespace character with

The connection<acronym>URI</acronym> needs to be encoded with<ulink

url="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-2.1">percent-encoding</ulink>

if it includes symbols with special meaning in any of its parts. Here is

an example wheretheequal sign (<literal>=</literal>) is replaced with

<literal>%3D</literal> andthe space character with

<literal>%20</literal>:

<programlisting>

postgresql://user@localhost:5433/mydb?options=-c%20synchronous_commit%3Doff