Re: [GENERAL] Querying libpq compile time options - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: [GENERAL] Querying libpq compile time options
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Msg-id 21614.1147886945@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: [GENERAL] Querying libpq compile time options  ("Larry Rosenman" <lrosenman@pervasive.com>)
Responses Re: [GENERAL] Querying libpq compile time options
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"Larry Rosenman" <lrosenman@pervasive.com> writes:
>> Uh, it is an _admin_ function, not an application programmer
>> function.

> but libpq is the only thing that knows where it is, and I had proposed a
> way for psql to use the function to get it.

It'd make more sense for pg_config to expose this as one of the
available information bits.  The difference from the thread-support
case is that you'd typically want to get the pg_service.conf location
manually, and that's exactly what pg_config is designed for.  Verifying
thread support, on the other hand, is something that a program would
want to do.
        regards, tom lane


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