Re: pg_config/share_dir

Tom Lane wrote:
> pg_config serves a function of recording the configuration,

pg_config was meant (as opposed to "serves") to provide information that
is of use for building third-party things. Hence includedir, libdir
for building, pkglibdir for installing. The option --configure records
the configuration, if you like, but I don't see the point of giving
users direct access to directories that they have no use for. I mean,
what would anyone want to do with pg_config --localedir? Certainly not
store the locale files of his own module there. There is a point to be
made that sysconfdir should be exposed, perhaps for the benefit of GUI
configuration editors, but that seems theoretical to me.

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Peter Eisentraut
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