Re: [GENERAL] Querying libpq compile time options

Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)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.

regards, tom lane