On Feb 7, 2009, at 7:09 PM, rhubbell wrote:
> In the case of DBD::Pg it seems that it just uses the output of
> pg_config. It seems absurd that that information can't be stored in
> psql. There must be some good reason that it's not.
> Is it because psql is stripped?
>
> At least the build information (which pg_config spits out) could be
> stored
> in a text file that psql knows about and then psql --buildopts would
> give you that information.
But what would you do with the information then? Most anything
(including
building DBD::Pg) that wants that data is going to need the developer
package.
Cheers,
Steve
