On 01/28/2015 08:05 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@vmware.com> writes:
>> Right, that was the idea. I wanted it to include the word "OpenSSL", to
>> make it clear in the callers that it's specific to OpenSSL. And SSL,
>> because that's the name of the struct. I agree it looks silly, though.
>> One idea is to have two separate arguments: the implementation name, and
>> the struct name. PQgetSSLstruct(&ssl, "OpenSSL", "SSL") would look less
>> silly.
>
> That's probably overkill. Why not establish a convention that the "main"
> API struct for the library doesn't have to be named? So it's just
> PQgetSSLstruct(&ssl, "OpenSSL"), and you only need strange naming if
> you're dealing with a library that actually has more than one API object
> that needs to be fetched this way. (That set is likely empty...)
Works for me. Committed that way.
- Heikki
