On 05/08/2011 05:24 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
On lör, 2011-05-07 at 17:38 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
On 05/07/2011 05:26 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
On lör, 2011-05-07 at 17:16 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
pg_config is useful quite apart from its use in building things, as was
discussed upthread.
Link please.

<http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2011-05/msg00275.php>
That thread just asserts that it might be useful, and I responded by
asking for what.


As I said there: "to see how the libraries are configured, for example."

Just the other day I wanted to know what compilation options had been used for a particular installation. pg_config wasn't installed because the -devel package wasn't installed, and it would have saved me quite some time if pg_config had been available.

Another example is to find out what the installation is using for shares, the service directory and so on.

cheers

andrew

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