Re: Exposing DEFAULT_PGSOCKET_DIR via a libpq function?

On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Tom Lane wrote:

> "Larry Rosenman" <ler(at)lerctr(dot)org> writes:
> > The other issue is borked installs where the server and libpq disagree.
> > What I'm looking for
> > is to expose what libpq has for it's default as well as what the server is
> > using. There is currently
> > no way to determine what libpq has for it's default. What happened in the
> > irc case was a partial re-install
> > with non-matching server and libpq.
>
> [ shrug... ] So? There isn't going to be any way that
> random-app-using-libpq is going to have a way to tell the user what the
> underlying copy of libpq is using for this default --- adding a call for
> that will be nothing more nor less than a waste of code space. You'd be
> best off running strings(1) over the libpq.so file when the question
> comes up.

When I encounter such behavior, my tool of choice tends to be strace(1)
rather than strings(1). That way, you know what exactly the thing it
wants that it is not finding is...

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