Re: Config file for psql - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Config file for psql
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Msg-id 455.1140292148@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Config file for psql  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
Responses Re: Config file for psql  ("Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby@pervasive.com>)
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> This needs a LOT more prominence. We probably need to refer to these 
> things on the manual pages for each of the libpq clients we have. 
> Haven't we learned that lesson from .pgpass ? The number of people who 
> read the libpq docs is probably vanishingly small.

Perhaps we should make a concerted effort to split the libpq docs into a
section "for programmers" vs one "for users", the latter part covering
the libpq behavior that is interesting to users of a libpq-based app.
.pgpass, pg_service, the environment vars, SSL behavior, maybe some
other things belong in the "for users" part.

I think only the environment-vars page is currently linked from the
client-apps reference pages, but if we did this we could link to the
entire for-users section and be done with it.
        regards, tom lane


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