Re: The use of (mb)print.c from psql in the scripts directory

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: The use of (mb)print.c from psql in the scripts directory
Date: 2005-10-26 03:23:10
Message-ID: 1200.1130296990@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> writes:
> Currently createlang and droplang use these two files mbprint.c and
> print.c to access the function printQuery() just to handle the
> displaying of the current languages. Is there any particular reason why
> it can't be made to use the version in libpq?

I believe Peter had deliberately moved away from that, basically on the
grounds that we can't whack the behavior of libpq functions around every
five minutes, the way some people like to do with psql and our other
client programs (see nearby thread about \x ;-))

regards, tom lane

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