Re: Lack of docs for libpq C Library - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Lack of docs for libpq C Library
Date
Msg-id 200801311644.m0VGirV18833@momjian.us
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In response to Re: Lack of docs for libpq C Library  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> 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.

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