Re: Exposing DEFAULT_PGSOCKET_DIR via a libpq function?

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.

That's making the assumption that you know which libpq. I was hoping to
have a psql commandline
Switch to dump the info, but with your objection(s), I'll just crawl back
under my rock.

>
> regards, tom lane

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