Re: pg_config

Peter Eisentraut said:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> I doubt it.  People can always just read the file to see what
>> settings are in it, and it's not like nonexperts are going to have a
>> variety of different configurations that we're gonna have to ask them
>> about. (Even in the Unix world, pg_config is not really needed when
>> most people are installing one of a small number of RPM-type
>> packages...)

ISTM that if it's not useful we should rip it out and if it is then we
should make it portable.

>
> The point of pg_config is not primarily to debug the installation
> layout  for us.  pg_config is used in configure scripts to find
> PostgreSQL  libraries and header files.

To that extent is it not broken by relocated installations that we have now
made some provision for?

> I don't know if Windows users
> have a  similar need.
>

I don't see why not.

cheers

andrew