Dave Page wrote: > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > > Dave Page <dp...@pgadmin.org> writes: > >> Right. My complaint though, is that the docs imply that the info on > >> how those values get set is in the docs somewhere, which appears to be > >> incorrect. > > > > The libpq documentation does cover the fact that libpq uses those > > variables to establish initial settings. ?I wouldn't expect it to > > go into implementation details, would you? > > Not the libpq docs, no. I was expecting something to though, having > been told in the intro to the low level protocol details that: > > "Higher level features built on this protocol (for example, how libpq > passes certain environment variables when the connection is > established) are covered elsewhere." > > Note that it says *how* libpq passes those variables which implies the > mechanism of passing them to the server. Anyway, I can figure out what > I need from the existing code - I just found that sentence misleading > and think it should probably be removed.
Agreed, removed. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com PG East: http://www.enterprisedb.com/community/nav-pg-east-2010.do + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
