The openflow-gec15 uses postgres://SERVER/DB?user=USER&password=PASS
for the PostGreSQL URI.
However, it is more customary to use postgres://USER:PASS@SERVER:PORT/DB/PARAMS [0], which is also what the rest of the OML stack uses.
[0] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/libpq-connect.html#AEN38155