Bruce Momjian wrote: > Larry Rosenman wrote: >> 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. > > Uh, it is an _admin_ function, not an application programmer function. but libpq is the only thing that knows where it is, and I had proposed a way for psql to use the function to get it.
However, I'm going to forget about it, as obviously I won't get approval for it. -- 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 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly