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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Fuhr <[email protected]>
Cc: Martijn van Oosterhout <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Config file for psql
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 14:49:08 -0500
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Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]> writes:
> This needs a LOT more prominence. We probably need to refer to these 
> things on the manual pages for each of the libpq clients we have. 
> Haven't we learned that lesson from .pgpass ? The number of people who 
> read the libpq docs is probably vanishingly small.

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.

I think only the environment-vars page is currently linked from the
client-apps reference pages, but if we did this we could link to the
entire for-users section and be done with it.

			regards, tom lane

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