Andrew Chernow wrote: > James Mansion wrote: >> Is there a need for a new API to control this - can't you just >> interpret another parameter keyword >> in PQconnectdb (or the pgoptions string in PQsetdbLogin I guess)? > > That's an interesting idea. I don't know if its the correct place to > control this, but it does allow turning off wsastartup and indicating > which winsock version to load.
>From a design perspective it seems like the wrong place to put it if you think of it as a general initialization. From the narrow perspective of wsastartup, it could work to add an option to inhibit it. But will it "scale" to future needs? //Magnus -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers