Re: [GENERAL] Querying libpq compile time options

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?


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