diff --git a/types/pg-connection-string/index.d.ts b/types/pg-connection-string/index.d.ts
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+// Type definitions for pg-connection-string 0.1
+// Project: https://github.com/iceddev/pg-connection-string
+// Definitions by: Bradley Ayers <https://github.com/bradleyayers>
+// Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
+// TypeScript Version: 2.1
+
+export function parse(connectionString: string): {
+    host: string;
+    database: string;
+    port: string;
+    application_name?: string;
+    client_encoding?: string;
+    fallback_application_name?: string;
+    user?: string;
+    password?: string;
+    ssl?: boolean;
+};
diff --git a/types/pg-connection-string/pg-connection-string-tests.ts b/types/pg-connection-string/pg-connection-string-tests.ts
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+import { parse } from 'pg-connection-string';
+
+const parts = parse('postgres://user:password@host:port/dbname');
+
+parts.application_name;
+parts.client_encoding;
+parts.database;
+parts.fallback_application_name;
+parts.host;
+parts.password;
+parts.port;
+parts.ssl;
+parts.user;
diff --git a/types/pg-connection-string/tsconfig.json b/types/pg-connection-string/tsconfig.json
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+{
+    "compilerOptions": {
+        "module": "commonjs",
+        "lib": [
+            "es6"
+        ],
+        "noImplicitAny": true,
+        "noImplicitThis": true,
+        "strictNullChecks": true,
+        "baseUrl": "../",
+        "typeRoots": [
+            "../"
+        ],
+        "types": [],
+        "noEmit": true,
+        "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true
+    },
+    "files": [
+        "index.d.ts",
+        "pg-connection-string-tests.ts"
+    ]
+}
diff --git a/types/pg-connection-string/tslint.json b/types/pg-connection-string/tslint.json
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+{ "extends": "dtslint/dt.json" }