Re: [GENERAL] Querying libpq compile time options

Larry Rosenman wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.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.

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