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.



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