Re: machine-readable pg_controldata?

On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 10:54:15PM +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> 2010/3/4 Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>:
> > pg_controldata --catalog_version
> >
> > Even better would be the ability to get everything which is in
> > pg_controldata currently as part of a system view in a running
> > PostgreSQL; I can get most of them, but certainly not all.
>
> +1 for having all the information available from inside the backend,
> if that's technically possible (which I assume it should be)

I'd love to see pg_config's various bits of information in there as well. I
just haven't gotten around to writing it. But +1 from me, FWIW.

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