Re: [GENERAL] Querying libpq compile time options

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Larry Rosenman wrote:
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> 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.

I had made a proposal to expose the path used for pg_service.conf.

this was back a month or so ago.

Would it be better to make a structure that has ALL the options, and
return
that from ONE function?

If so, I can code it up. I have time available.

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