Re: pg_config

Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut said:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> I doubt it. People can always just read the file to see what
> >> settings are in it, and it's not like nonexperts are going to have a
> >> variety of different configurations that we're gonna have to ask them
> >> about. (Even in the Unix world, pg_config is not really needed when
> >> most people are installing one of a small number of RPM-type
> >> packages...)
>
> ISTM that if it's not useful we should rip it out and if it is then we
> should make it portable.

Agreed. Right now we have a shell script in the Win32 binary directory
that doesn't work for them.

> > The point of pg_config is not primarily to debug the installation
> > layout for us. pg_config is used in configure scripts to find
> > PostgreSQL libraries and header files.
>
> To that extent is it not broken by relocated installations that we have now
> made some provision for?

Good question.

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