I want to run imposm to import OSM data to a PostGIS DB. My problem is that the password for the DB contains special characters like ":" (a colon). I cannot change the password.
The documentation states to use the connection parameter like this:
The -connection option takes a URL in the format postgis://username:password@host:port/databasename or a list of parameters like postgis: host=/tmp dbname=osm
However, this produces an error because of the special characters in the password.
parsing database connection URL: parse "postgres://user:pss?wo:r?d!@host/osm": invalid port ":r?d" after host
The documentation also says to use a list of parameters but it is not clear to me how these parameters have to be named.
Does anyone know how to pass the connection parameters with a list instead of the URL encryption? I can only find host and dbname and I dont't know how to write the connection excatly. Or is there a possibility to escape special characters in the URL?
You must encode the special characters.
If your password is
pss?wo:r?d!, the connection URL would be