| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)sraoss(dot)co(dot)jp>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Exporting more function in libpq |
| Date: | 2016-08-23 01:29:59 |
| Message-ID: | 17078.1471915799@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> Craig Ringer wrote:
>> Shouldn't that generally be done by extending libpq to add the required
>> functionality?
> The thought that came to me was that maybe we need a separate library
> that handles the lower level operations (a "fe/be" library, if you will)
> which can be exported for others to use and is used by libpq to
> implement the slightly-higher-level functionality.
If you wanted a library that exposed something close to the wire-level
protocol, I do not think that tearing out some of the oldest and cruftiest
parts of libpq and exposing them verbatim is really the best way to go
about it.
regards, tom lane
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