On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 07:16:19PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> > korryd@enterprisedb.com wrote:
> > >> It's important to get the *right* interface into the first release
> > >> that has it.
> > >>
> > >
> > > Agreed, that's why I proposed the right interface to begin with :-)
> > >
> >
> > Maybe the first thing we might usefully do would be to document
> > PQExpBuffer. And you can send in a patch for that for 8.3 :-)
>
> The big question is whether these functions are for external use. We
> do export them using libpq/exports.txt, but I assume it was only for
> psql use and not for general usage.
There was discussion about this before, and the conclusion then was that
they're not a part of the public interface, and only intended to be used by
"our own" frontends. Doesn't mean we can't put it out there if we think
it's a good interface for people to use though ;-)
//Magnus