Tom Lane wrote: > 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. >
and when I've proposed libpq functions to expose compile-time constants, I've been shot down. How is this different? -- Larry Rosenman Database Support Engineer PERVASIVE SOFTWARE. INC. 12365B RIATA TRACE PKWY 3015 AUSTIN TX 78727-6531 Tel: 512.231.6173 Fax: 512.231.6597 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.pervasive.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org