more api compat

lib/binding.js

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 //require the c++ bindings & export to javascript
 var binding = require(__dirname + '/../build/default/binding');
+var utils = require(__dirname + "/utils");
 var Connection = binding.Connection;
 var p = Connection.prototype;
 
@@ -11,8 +12,8 @@ var add = function(params, config, paramName) {
 }
 
 var getLibpgConString = function(config, callback) {
-  var params = []
   if(typeof config == 'object') {
+    var params = []
     add(params, config, 'user');
     add(params, config, 'password');
     add(params, config, 'port');
@@ -25,8 +26,12 @@ var getLibpgConString = function(config, callback) {
       }
       params.push("hostaddr=127.0.0.1 ");
     }
+    callback(params.join(" "));
+  } else if (typeof config == 'string') {
+    getLibpgConString(utils.parseConnectionString(config), callback)
+  } else {
+    throw new Error("Unrecognized config type for connection");
   }
-  callback(params.join(" "));
 }
 
 var nativeConnect = p.connect;
@@ -73,10 +78,19 @@ var ctor = function(config) {
     this.emit('end');
     this._activeQuery = null;
     connection._pulseQueryQueue();
-  })
+  });
   return connection;
-}
+};
+
+var connect = function(config, callback) {
+  var client = new ctor(config);
+  client.connect();
+  client.on('connect', function() {
+    callback(null, client);
+  })
+};
 
 module.exports = {
-  Client:ctor
+  Client: ctor,
+  connect: connect
 };

lib/utils.js

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ if(typeof events.EventEmitter.prototype.once !== 'function') {
     });
   };
 }
+
 var Pool = function(maxSize, createFn) {
   events.EventEmitter.call(this);
   this.maxSize = maxSize;

test/integration/client/api-tests.js

@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 var helper = require(__dirname + '/../test-helper');
 var pg = require(__dirname + '/../../../lib');
+if(helper.args.libpq) {
+  pg = require(__dirname + "/../../../lib/binding");
+}
 var connectionString = helper.connectionString(__filename);
 
 var log = function() {