Tom Lane wrote:
> I doubt it. People can always just read the file to see what
> settings are in it, and it's not like nonexperts are going to have a
> variety of different configurations that we're gonna have to ask them
> about. (Even in the Unix world, pg_config is not really needed when
> most people are installing one of a small number of RPM-type
> packages...)
The point of pg_config is not primarily to debug the installation layout
for us. pg_config is used in configure scripts to find PostgreSQL
libraries and header files. I don't know if Windows users have a
similar need.
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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/