Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes: > I thought about this. Attached is a patch you can use to > popen("pg_config") and then look for the thread flag to configure. One > idea would be to add this sample to our libpq documentation. The > problem with the example is popen() overhead, pg_config not in $PATH, or > pg_config's version not matching libpq's version.
Yeah, the last point seems like a killer objection :-(. It'd be better to add some sort of libpq function to handle the issue. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match