pg_config

Peter Eisentraut wrote:

>Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>
>>To that extent is it not broken by relocated installations that we
>>have now made some provision for?
>>
>>
>
>Well, then it should be fixed to take relocated installations into
>account.
>
>Relocatable installations are by nature a pretty broken feature. When
>you use pg_config to locate, say, libpq, then compile your third-party
>package, and then move libpq somewhere else, nothing can save you
>(except moving libpq back). At least on Unix, relocatable
>installations are a walking cane when you need parallel installations
>for upgrades, but they'll never work reliably in general.
>
>
>

Of course, if you rely on pg_config and then move the installation you
will put a very large hole in your foot. But we can't make things
totally idiot-proof - they will just build a better idiot.

Here is an attempt to do the Right Thing (tm) in C.

cheers

andrew