Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Larry Rosenman wrote:
>> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>> Larry Rosenman wrote:
>>>> 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?
>>> 
>>> No idea, what is the URL of your proposal.  Keep in mind this is not
>>> option-specific.
>> 
>> I had made a proposal to expose the path used for pg_service.conf.
> 
> Why would an application programmer care to know the location of
> pg_service.conf?

The admin needs to know it to use it.  Currently there is no 
way to get what is compiled into a specific libpq. 

> 
>> Would it be better to make a structure that has ALL the options, and
>> return that from ONE function?
> 
> I can't think of an easy way to do that.

I guess I'll just crawl under my rock again.



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