Re: Proof of concept: standalone backend with full FE/BE protocol

Hi,

On Monday, September 03, 2012 10:23:52 PM Tom Lane wrote:
> I'm reluctantly coming to the conclusion that we can't pass these
> parameters through the regular libpq connection string mechanism, and
> will have to invent something else.  That's awfully nasty though;
> it will pretty much cripple the idea that this would be a simple way to
> invoke a quasi-embedded variant of Postgres.
What I am asking myself is: why does that have to go through the normal 
PQconnectdb*  api? This is something completely new and very well might grow 
more features that are not necessarily easy to press into PQconnectdb().

PQServer
PQstartServer(const char **keywords, const char **values);

or whatever seems to be more future proof especially considering the 
possibility that this will grow into something more featureful.

Greetings,

Andres
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