Re: [GENERAL] Querying libpq compile time options

Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>> 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.

Hm, I was thinking of something like "bool PQisThreadSafe()". It sounds
like Bruce is thinking of something that'd return a string literal
containing configure flags and then apps would have to try to inspect
that to determine what they want to know. That seems fairly messy to
me; for one thing because it would imply wiring assumptions about
default configure flags into apps, and that's something that could
change over time.

regards, tom lane