Re: [GENERAL] Querying libpq compile time options

Larry Rosenman wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > "Larry Rosenman" <lrosenman(at)pervasive(dot)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.
>
> It still gets into the messiness of pg_config doesn't load libpq, and
> there could be a mis-match.

That is the administrator's job, to make sure they match. Applications
programmers can't do that.

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