Re: libpq WSACleanup is not needed

Andrew Chernow wrote:
> James Mansion wrote:
>> Is there a need for a new API to control this - can't you just
>> interpret another parameter keyword
>> in PQconnectdb (or the pgoptions string in PQsetdbLogin I guess)?  
> 
> That's an interesting idea.  I don't know if its the correct place to
> control this, but it does allow turning off wsastartup and indicating
> which winsock version to load.

From a design perspective it seems like the wrong place to put it if you
think of it as a general initialization. From the narrow perspective of
wsastartup, it could work to add an option to inhibit it. But will it
"scale" to future needs?

//Magnus