Re: wrong comment in libpq.h

> It looks like this wording "prototypes for functions in" is used many
> times in src/include/, in many cases equally inaccurately, so I would
> suggest creating a more comprehensive patch for this.

I noticed this "prototypes for functions in" in many header files and
briefly checked them. It kind of all make sense except the bufmgr.h has
something like below.

/* in buf_init.c */
extern void InitBufferPool(void);
extern Size BufferShmemSize(void);

/* in localbuf.c */
extern void AtProcExit_LocalBuffers(void);

/* in freelist.c */

which doesn't say "prototypes for functions xxx", but it still make
sense for me.

The main confusion part is in libpq.h.

/*
 * prototypes for functions in be-secure.c
 */
extern PGDLLIMPORT char *ssl_library;
extern PGDLLIMPORT char *ssl_cert_file;
extern PGDLLIMPORT char *ssl_key_file;
extern PGDLLIMPORT char *ssl_ca_file;
extern PGDLLIMPORT char *ssl_crl_file;
extern PGDLLIMPORT char *ssl_crl_dir;
extern PGDLLIMPORT char *ssl_dh_params_file;
extern PGDLLIMPORT char *ssl_passphrase_command;
extern PGDLLIMPORT bool ssl_passphrase_command_supports_reload;
#ifdef USE_SSL
extern PGDLLIMPORT bool ssl_loaded_verify_locations;
#endif

If we can delete the comment and move the variables declarations to /*
GUCs */ section, then it should be more consistent.

/* GUCs */
extern PGDLLIMPORT char *SSLCipherSuites;
extern PGDLLIMPORT char *SSLECDHCurve;
extern PGDLLIMPORT bool SSLPreferServerCiphers;
extern PGDLLIMPORT int ssl_min_protocol_version;
extern PGDLLIMPORT int ssl_max_protocol_version;

One more argument for my previous patch is that with this minor change
it can better align with the parameters in postgresql.conf.

# - SSL -

#ssl = off
#ssl_ca_file = ''
#ssl_cert_file = 'server.crt'
#ssl_crl_file = ''
#ssl_crl_dir = ''
#ssl_key_file = 'server.key'
#ssl_ciphers = 'HIGH:MEDIUM:+3DES:!aNULL'    # allowed SSL ciphers
#ssl_prefer_server_ciphers = on
#ssl_ecdh_curve = 'prime256v1'
#ssl_min_protocol_version = 'TLSv1.2'
#ssl_max_protocol_version = ''
#ssl_dh_params_file = ''
#ssl_passphrase_command = ''
#ssl_passphrase_command_supports_reload = off

best regards,

David