| From: | Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> |
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| To: | Dave Page <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Testing for a shared library |
| Date: | 2005-09-07 08:15:37 |
| Message-ID: | 431EA1A9.9050500@familyhealth.com.au |
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>>Is there any way of checking to see if a particular shared library is
>>installed?
>>
>>eg. select is_shared_library('$libdir/tsearch2');
>
>
> How well do you know the library you are looking for? You could just try
> creating a function from it and seeing if it fails.
I know it pretty well, but it seems kind of lame to have to create the
function and test for it, especialyl if you have a non-error tolerating
environment.
Plus, you have to know what exported functions it has and you have to
worry about creating any input and return types, etc.
Chris
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