From: Swen Kabis <swen@wavefire.com>
To: pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] libpq - PQsetenv and its new sister functions
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 11:31:02 -0700
Message-ID: <3.0.32.19990726113102.00906680@mail.wavefire.com> (raw)
At 08:32 PM 7/25/99 +0100, you wrote:
>Further to my discussions with Tom Lane on this list last weekend, I
>have been re-arranging the connection functions in libpq to allow
>asynchronous connections. Part of this has been to create new
>functions that perform the duties of the existing function PQsetenv,
>but in a non-blocking manner. This involves passing the values of
>certain environment variables (PGDATESTYLE, PGTZ, et al) to the
>backend, as well as negotiating a client encoding if MULTIBYTE is
>defined. Now, PQsetenv is declared in fe-connect.c thus:
>
>/* XXX Why is this not static? */
>void PQsetenv(PGconn *conn);
>
>It is not declared in libpq-fe.h, so currently those who are playing by
>the rules are unable to call this function for themselves.
>
>It seems to me that PQsetenv might be useful as part of the public API,
>and I can see no harm in doing so. What is clear, however, is that the
>functions I have created should have the same accessibility as
>PQsetenv; to do otherwise would be nonsensical.
>
>So, should I bring PQsetenv into the public API by declaring it in
>libpq-fe.h, and have my functions join it, or should I keep the new
>functions static (and probably leave PQsetenv non-static, with
>compatibility worries). My preference would be the former - does anyone
>disagree?
>
>Ewan Mellor.
I think it would be better to declare it in libpq-fe.h
Swen
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