Re: [GENERAL] Querying libpq compile time options

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

True, but if you go per-option, I can see adding a lot of them.  That
seemed more messy.

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