Darcy Buskermolen wrote: > On Tuesday 28 March 2006 14:07, Larry Rosenman wrote: >> Greetings, >> After helping a user on irc, I was wondering if there would be >> any objection to my making a patch that would: >> >> 1) expose DEFAULT_PGSOCKET_DIR via a libpq call >> 2) add this information to the psql --version output (or some other >> switch, I'm agnostic). >> >> for those weird times when some distro changes it, and you then >> overwrite parts of it, it would be useful for diagnostics. > > is it not shown by, (if it's not default of /tmp) ? > pg_config --configure >
see my reply to Tom, that I just posted. This is for diagnostic use, when there are partial overwrites, and/or pathing issues that are causing a particular libpq/psql combination to not necessarily agree on what's where. I want to expose exactly what libpq is using. LER -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 512-248-2683 E-Mail: ler@lerctr.org US Mail: 430 Valona Loop, Round Rock, TX 78681-3893 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
