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 200801312313.m0VNDun18941@momjian.us
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In response to Re: Lack of docs for libpq C Library  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Lack of docs for libpq C Library  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> >>> Furthermore HP is hardly the authoritative reference on SSL.  Can't
> >>> we find an RFC or something?
> >>
> >> See above.
>
> > If anything, we should link to OpenSSL, because they implement the API we are
> > referring to.  I don't know what HP has to do with it.
>
> Yeah, I was thinking a simple pointer to www.openssl.org would be more

I looked at the SSL docs and they are _minimal_:

    http://www.openssl.org/docs/

In fact "[STILL INCOMPLETE]" is on almost every item.

> appropriate.  We're not here to substitute for somebody doing their
> own Google search ...

The HP page is not a primary Google hit --- it took me trolling though
many copies of the SSL manual pages to find it.

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