Re: [HACKERS] Reducing pg_ctl's reaction time

Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:

> So when I removed the miscadmin.h include, I found out that pg_ctl is
> also relying on PG_BACKEND_VERSIONSTR from that file.
> 
> There are at least three things we could do here:
> 
> 1. Give this up as not worth this much trouble.
> 
> 2. Move PG_BACKEND_VERSIONSTR into pg_config.h to go along with the
> other version-related macros.

pg_config.h sounds like a decent enough solution.  It's a bit strange
this hasn't come up before, given that that symbol is used more in
frontend environ than backend.

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