Re: PostgreSQL Password Cracker

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, mlw <pgsql(at)mohawksoft(dot)com>, Devrim GUNDUZ <devrim(at)tr(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL Password Cracker
Date: 2003-01-04 00:43:45
Message-ID: 200301040043.h040hjm28462@candle.pha.pa.us
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Tom Lane writes:
>
> > separate out the parts that are only interesting to a programmer using
> > libpq from the parts that are interesting to a user of a libpq-based
> > program (for example, all the info about environment variables, conninfo
> > string syntax, and .pgpass).
>
> The sections on environment variables and the .pgpass file are at the
> "sect1" level, which is about as prominent as I think we can make them.
> Certainly they are not a subject matter that warrants a whole chapter of
> their own. What's missing are some cross-references.

But it is a "sect1" in libpq. It should be a "sect1" somewhere that
makes more sense.

Right now it appears here:

Table of Contents
1. libpq - C Library

1.1. Introduction
1.2. Database Connection Functions
1.3. Command Execution Functions
1.4. Asynchronous Query Processing
1.5. The Fast-Path Interface
1.6. Asynchronous Notification
1.7. Functions Associated with the COPY Command
1.8. libpq Tracing Functions
1.9. libpq Control Functions
1.10. Environment Variables

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
1.11. Files
1.12. Threading Behavior
1.13. Building Libpq Programs
1.14. Example Programs

It doesn't belong in libpq, and it doesn't belong in the Programmer's
Guide.

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