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> On Nov 29, 2018, at 10:17 AM, Steve Atkins <steve@blighty.com> wrote:
>=20
>=20
>=20
>> On Nov 29, 2018, at 9:36 AM, Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org> wrote:
>>=20
>> Re: Dmitry Igrishin 2018-11-29 =
<CAAfz9KMcq418B55Hyv2d97Ur+6dhSo_N_u=3DDx93d3bMkOPei9A@mail.gmail.com>
>>>> Could you please add the reference to the Pgfe client library to =
the
>>>> documentation?
>>>> The patch is provided.
>>=20
>>> diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/external-projects.sgml =
b/doc/src/sgml/external-projects.sgml
>>> index 347b830..c74e391 100644
>>> --- a/doc/src/sgml/external-projects.sgml
>>> +++ b/doc/src/sgml/external-projects.sgml
>>> @@ -83,6 +83,13 @@
>>>     </row>
>>>=20
>>>     <row>
>>> +      <entry>Pgfe</entry>
>>> +      <entry>C++</entry>
>>> +      <entry>An API inspired by libpq</entry>
>>> +      <entry><ulink =
url=3D"https://github.com/dmitigr/pgfe"></ulink></entry>
>>=20
>> Has that been around long enough, and is widely used, so it qualifies
>> for mentioning here? I've never heard of it, and it's not packaged =
for
>> Debian.
>=20
> No. It's been discussed at least once before that I've noticed, and =
IIRC
> the conclusion was "add it to the wiki", which I did in May.
>=20
> https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Client_Libraries

And while it looks like it has the potential to become a decent enough =
library it's
own documentation says that it's beta-quality, has an unstable API and =
isn't
ready to be used in production.

Cheers,
  Steve=