Re: [HACKERS] Wire protocol docs

2010-02-22 Thread Bruce Momjian
Dave Page wrote: > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > > Dave Page 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

Re: [HACKERS] Wire protocol docs

2009-10-13 Thread Dave Page
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Dave Page 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

Re: [HACKERS] Wire protocol docs

2009-10-13 Thread Tom Lane
Dave Page 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 expe

Re: [HACKERS] Wire protocol docs

2009-10-13 Thread Greg Smith
On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Dave Page wrote: On http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/protocol.html we say: "Higher level features built on this protocol (for example, how libpq passes certain environment variables when the connection is established) are covered elsewhere." http://www.postg

Re: [HACKERS] Wire protocol docs

2009-10-13 Thread Dave Page
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: > At 2009-10-13 17:25:15 +0100, dp...@pgadmin.org wrote: >> >> I cannot find anything that is obviously 'elsewhere' in the docs - >> does that need fixing, or do my searching skills need improving? > > I don't know, but… > >> *starts readin

Re: [HACKERS] Wire protocol docs

2009-10-13 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2009-10-13 17:25:15 +0100, dp...@pgadmin.org wrote: > > I cannot find anything that is obviously 'elsewhere' in the docs - > does that need fixing, or do my searching skills need improving? I don't know, but… > *starts reading source code* :-) Look at what fe-protocol3.c:build_startup_packet(

[HACKERS] Wire protocol docs

2009-10-13 Thread Dave Page
On http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/protocol.html we say: "Higher level features built on this protocol (for example, how libpq passes certain environment variables when the connection is established) are covered elsewhere." I cannot find anything that is obviously 'elsewhere' in th