Re: [GENERAL] Connection options

On 06/15/2017 02:41 PM, Igor Korot wrote:
> Hi, David,
>
> On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 4:46 PM, David G. Johnston
> <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 1:23 PM, Igor Korot <ikorot01@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> And could you clarify on the first part of this?
>>>  From the quote I poste it sounds like this is available only in
>>> command-line
>>> tools. And if someone will use it inside the program it will be ignored.
>>
>>
>> The options you pass from the client via the "options" attribute are
>> interpreted by *the server* as command-line options.  They are not options
>> that control libpq itself.
>
> Can you give an example or try to explain it?
> What do you mean by "interpreted by the server as command-line options"?
>
> Does this mean I can just ignore this parameter inside my C{++} program?
> Or I can set some options and pass it to the server thru this parameter?
>
>>
>> I can kinda see the confusion here but I'm not sure how to write it more
>> clearly without being excessively verbose.  I haven't seen this particular
>> confusion before so I'd say the wording is reasonable and the mailing lists
>> are doing their job of providing a forum for providing clarity.
>
> Well for someone who is just started with PostgreSQL and C interface it is
> confusing.

Maybe this will help:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/libpq-example.html

>
> Thank you.
>
>>
>> David J.
>>


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