Larry Rosenman wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: > > "Larry Rosenman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> 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. > > > > It'd make more sense for pg_config to expose this as one of the > > available information bits. The difference from the thread-support > > case is that you'd typically want to get the pg_service.conf location > > manually, and that's exactly what pg_config is designed for. > > Verifying thread support, on the other hand, is something that a > > program would want to do. > > It still gets into the messiness of pg_config doesn't load libpq, and > there could be a mis-match.
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