And could you clarify on the first part of this? From the quote I poste it sounds like this is available only in command-line tools. And if someone will use it inside the program it will be ignored.
The options you pass from the client via the "options" attribute are interpreted by *the server* as command-line options. They are not options that control libpq itself.
I can kinda see the confusion here but I'm not sure how to write it more clearly without being excessively verbose. I haven't seen this particular confusion before so I'd say the wording is reasonable and the mailing lists are doing their job of providing a forum for providing clarity.
