On sön, 2011-05-08 at 07:21 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> As I said there: "to see how the libraries are configured, for example."
>
> Just the other day I wanted to know what compilation options had been
> used for a particular installation. pg_config wasn't installed because
> the -devel package wasn't installed, and it would have saved me quite
> some time if pg_config had been available.
>
> Another example is to find out what the installation is using for
> shares, the service directory and so on.
Yeah, those are decent reasons.
