X-Original-To: pgsql-docs-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7D9E9DCB49; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 15:48:37 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 09096-05; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 15:48:37 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from candle.pha.pa.us (candle.pha.pa.us [70.90.9.53]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 288149DCAA8; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 15:48:34 -0400 (AST) Received: (from pgman@localhost) by candle.pha.pa.us (8.11.6/8.11.6) id k1SJmV526567; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 14:48:31 -0500 (EST) From: Bruce Momjian Message-Id: <200602281948.k1SJmV526567@candle.pha.pa.us> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Config file for psql In-Reply-To: <20060219172517.GH57845@pervasive.com> To: "Jim C. Nasby" Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 14:48:31 -0500 (EST) CC: Tom Lane , pgsql-docs@postgresql.org, Andrew Dunstan , Michael Fuhr , Martijn van Oosterhout , pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL121 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.401 required=5 tests=[AWL=-0.099, RAZOR2_CHECK=0.5] X-Spam-Score: 0.401 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200602/17 X-Sequence-Number: 3457 Jim C. Nasby wrote: > On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 02:49:08PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > > Perhaps we should make a concerted effort to split the libpq docs into a > > section "for programmers" vs one "for users", the latter part covering > > the libpq behavior that is interesting to users of a libpq-based app. > > .pgpass, pg_service, the environment vars, SSL behavior, maybe some > > other things belong in the "for users" part. > > +1. Is there a docs TODO? Added to TODO: * Split out libpq pgpass and environment documentation sections to make it easier for non-developers to find Looking at the existing manual, how do we do this? Do we make separate libpq-programming and a libpq-runtime sections? -- Bruce Momjian http://candle.pha.pa.us SRA OSS, Inc. http://www.sraoss.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +