Re: Lack of docs for libpq C Library

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Pavel Golub <pavel(at)gf(dot)microolap(dot)com>, pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Lack of docs for libpq C Library
Date: 2008-01-31 16:44:53
Message-ID: 200801311644.m0VGirV18833@momjian.us
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> > I disagree. I think PQinitSSL is meant to be called from the
> > application, for example. Same with PQsetClientEncoding. And the
> > PQExpBuffer stuff is all very useful, and years ago when I wrote an app
> > to use it it annoyed me that there were no docs on it. (Back then, I
> > didn't realize I could have complained about it or written the docs
> > myself).
>
> PQinitSSL *is* documented, though looking at the para immediately raises
> the question what the heck we are doing pointing to a random hp.com page
> for SSL documentation.

I added that for 8.3. The HP documentation seemed excellent, which is
why I added it.

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