Re: exposing pg_controldata and pg_config as functions - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: exposing pg_controldata and pg_config as functions
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Msg-id 55EF4338.6050302@gmx.net
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In response to Re: exposing pg_controldata and pg_config as functions  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>)
Responses Re: exposing pg_controldata and pg_config as functions  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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On 9/7/15 7:32 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> 
>> I already gave a use case that you dismissed in favour of a vague solution
>> that we don't actually have. You seem to be the only person objecting to
>> this proposal.
> 
> I think that use case would be better served by a completely different
> interface -- some way to query the server, "does this installation
> support feature X?"  What you proposed, using a regexp to look for
> --enable-xml in the pg_config --configure output, doesn't look all that
> nice to me.

Agreed.




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