new version of PQconnectdb was:(Re: [HACKERS] Determining client_encoding from client locale)

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Heikki
Linnakangas<heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>
> Could we
> have a version of PQconnectdb() with an API more suited for setting the
> params programmatically? The PQsetdbLogin() approach doesn't scale as
> parameters are added/removed in future versions, but we could have
> something like this:
>
> PGconn *PQconnectParams(const char **params)
>
> Where "params" is an array with an even number of parameters, forming
> key/value pairs. Usage example:
>
[...]
>
> Another idea is to use an array of PQconninfoOption structs:
>
> PQconn *PQconnectParams(PQconninfoOption *params);
>

this sounds like a good idea, specially if we add new parameters to
the conninfo string and want postgresql's client applications to use
them.

any one have a preference here?

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Atentamente,
Jaime Casanova
Soporte y capacitación de PostgreSQL
Asesoría y desarrollo de sistemas
Guayaquil - Ecuador
Cel. +59387171157