Larry Rosenman wrote:
> 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?
No idea, what is the URL of your proposal. Keep in mind this is not
option-specific.
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