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

On Sun, 2009-09-27 at 21:49 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> > Jaime Casanova <jcasanov@systemguards.com.ec> writes:
> >> i extracted the functions to connect that Heikki put on psql in his
> >> patch for determining client_encoding from client locale and put it in
> >> libpq so i follow the PQconnectdbParams(* params[]) approach.
> >
> > I got around to looking at the actual patch a bit.  I hadn't understood
> > why it was so small, but now I do: it's implemented as a wrapper around
> > PQconnectdb.  That is, it takes the given keywords and values, and
> > builds a conninfo string, which PQconnectdb then has to pull apart
> > again.

> Based on this review, it sounds like this patch will need a major
> rewrite before it can be seriously reviewed.  Given that, I think it
> makes sense to postpone this to the next CommitFest, so I am going to
> mark it as Returned with Feedback.

Is anyone planning to do further work on this?  This appears to be
blocking the client_encoding=auto feature.