Re: querying the version of libpq

[Dmitriy Igrishin <dmitigr@xxxxxxxxx>]

2010/10/14 Massa, Harald Armin <chef@xxxxxxx>

Dmitriy,

Again, I suggest PQlibVersion() or PQversion() instead of PQlibpqVersion().

Why this "pq" redundancy in name? Waste of bytes.

the first PQ qualifies the name-space "those are PostgresQl functions".

the library is called libpq, and we are explicitly asking for the version of libpq; not of any other library that may or may not be connected with libpqÂ

If "PQ" is "namespace", so PQlibVersion() will never conflict with other libraries.
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(in some compilations there is linkage to some system libraries, which have versions of their own. in other implementations there are wrappers around the libpq-libraray, which have their own version to. Oh, and there is open-ssl which may be mixed into Âthe whole party)

So 2 bytes of source-code / linker redundancy in times where smartphones sport 12Gigabyte should be payed....

I don't worry about source-code or linker. I want correctness.
Why libpq does not have PQlibpqConnect() ? How about other libraries linked to libpq ?
Waste of bytes.

Harald

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