Re: [GENERAL] Querying libpq compile time options

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>> 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.

Hm, I was thinking of something like "bool PQisThreadSafe()".  It sounds
like Bruce is thinking of something that'd return a string literal
containing configure flags and then apps would have to try to inspect
that to determine what they want to know.  That seems fairly messy to
me; for one thing because it would imply wiring assumptions about
default configure flags into apps, and that's something that could
change over time.
        regards, tom lane