Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> I agree with Martijn that putting these into libpq's API
>> seems like useless clutter.
> Where else to put it? We need it in libpq anyway if we want this
> behavior in all client applications (by default).
Having the code in libpq doesn't necessarily mean exposing it to the
outside world. I can't see a reason for these to be in the API at all.
Possibly we could avoid the duplication-of-source-code issue by putting
the code in libpgport, or someplace, whence both initdb and libpq could
get at it?
regards, tom lane
