| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Larry Rosenman <lrosenman(at)pervasive(dot)com>, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, spaminos-sql(at)yahoo(dot)com, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [GENERAL] Querying libpq compile time options |
| Date: | 2006-05-17 18:31:17 |
| Message-ID: | 200605171831.k4HIVHN13933@candle.pha.pa.us |
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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
We already do expose it:
$ pg_config --sysconfdir
/usr/var/local/postgres/etc
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