2010/10/14 Massa, Harald Armin <c...@ghum.de>

> Dmitriy,
>
>>
>> Again, I suggest PQlibVersion() or PQversion() instead of
>> PQlibpqVersion().
>>
>> Why this "pq" redundancy in name? Waste of bytes.
>>
>> the first PQ qualifies the name-space "those are PostgresQl functions".
> the library is called libpq, and we are explicitly asking for the version
> of libpq; not of any other library that may or may not be connected with
> libpq
>
If "PQ" is "namespace", so PQlibVersion() will never conflict with other
libraries.


>
> (in some compilations there is linkage to some system libraries, which have
> versions of their own. in other implementations there are wrappers around
> the libpq-libraray, which have their own version to. Oh, and there is
> open-ssl which may be mixed into  the whole party)
>
> So 2 bytes of source-code / linker redundancy in times where smartphones
> sport 12Gigabyte should be payed....
>
> I don't worry about source-code or linker. I want correctness.
Why libpq does not have PQlibpqConnect() ? How about other libraries linked
to libpq ?
Waste of bytes.

Harald
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// Dmitriy.

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