Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.184]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B01C32E017B for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:45:17 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.184]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 61281-01-5 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:45:05 -0400 (AST) Received: from momjian.us (momjian.us [70.90.9.53]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DBA92E2D4F for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:44:59 -0400 (AST) Received: (from bruce@localhost) by momjian.us (8.11.6/8.11.6) id m0VGirV18833; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:44:53 -0500 (EST) From: Bruce Momjian Message-Id: <200801311644.m0VGirV18833@momjian.us> Subject: Re: Lack of docs for libpq C Library In-Reply-To: <8892.1201796537@sss.pgh.pa.us> To: Tom Lane Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:44:53 -0500 (EST) CC: Alvaro Herrera , Pavel Golub , pgsql-docs@postgresql.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL124 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200801/49 X-Sequence-Number: 4778 Tom Lane wrote: > Alvaro Herrera 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. -- Bruce Momjian http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://postgres.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +