Re: libpq object hooks

Merlin Moncure wrote:
> Regarding the other comments:
> *) API structure: Our major objective was to minimize exports to
> libpq. I think both copyresult and setvalue have some possible
> sideband usage (footguns or no). Additional functions could be
> speculated but are not required by libpqtypes. We would have no
> problem adding a few things to complete the api if necessary.
>
> The patch is basically the minimum libpqtypes needs and has to work
> more or less as written. We tried a few times to suggest implementing
> the split a different way (basically, more invasion into libpq). We
> couldn't get any action there.
>
> If the patch is rejected on general merits...that signals the death
> blow for libpqtypes. We have a chicken/egg problem...people can't use
> it without patching libpq which will really hamper its adoption, which
> is, uh, needed to justify the patch. For the record, we have had a
> couple of dozen downloads of the libpqtypes library on pgfoundry since
> we put it up there last week. Based on how it has simplified and
> improved our own code vs. libpq, we have absolutely no doubts it is a
> major improvement over PQexecParams.

One idea would be to add the libpq hooks but not document them. This
way, we can modify or remove the API as needed in the future. As
libpqtypes matures and we are sure what the API should be, we can
document it as stable and permanent.

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