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
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 the
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()
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Abhijit Menon-Sen a...@toroid.org 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
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.
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.
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
