| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: exposing pg_controldata and pg_config as functions |
| Date: | 2015-09-08 20:21:12 |
| Message-ID: | 55EF4338.6050302@gmx.net |
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On 9/7/15 7:32 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>> I already gave a use case that you dismissed in favour of a vague solution
>> that we don't actually have. You seem to be the only person objecting to
>> this proposal.
>
> I think that use case would be better served by a completely different
> interface -- some way to query the server, "does this installation
> support feature X?" What you proposed, using a regexp to look for
> --enable-xml in the pg_config --configure output, doesn't look all that
> nice to me.
Agreed.
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