Darcy Buskermolen wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 March 2006 14:07, Larry Rosenman wrote:
>> Greetings,
>> After helping a user on irc, I was wondering if there would be
>> any objection to my making a patch that would:
>>
>> 1) expose DEFAULT_PGSOCKET_DIR via a libpq call
>> 2) add this information to the psql --version output (or some other
>> switch, I'm agnostic).
>>
>> for those weird times when some distro changes it, and you then
>> overwrite parts of it, it would be useful for diagnostics.
>
> is it not shown by, (if it's not default of /tmp) ?
> pg_config --configure
>
see my reply to Tom, that I just posted. This is for diagnostic use, when
there are partial overwrites, and/or pathing issues that are causing a
particular
libpq/psql combination to not necessarily agree on what's where.
I want to expose exactly what libpq is using.
LER
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