Peter Eisentraut said:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> I doubt it. People can always just read the file to see what
>> settings are in it, and it's not like nonexperts are going to have a
>> variety of different configurations that we're gonna have to ask them
>> about. (Even in the Unix world, pg_config is not really needed when
>> most people are installing one of a small number of RPM-type
>> packages...)
ISTM that if it's not useful we should rip it out and if it is then we
should make it portable.
>
> The point of pg_config is not primarily to debug the installation
> layout for us. pg_config is used in configure scripts to find
> PostgreSQL libraries and header files.
To that extent is it not broken by relocated installations that we have now
made some provision for?
> I don't know if Windows users
> have a similar need.
>
I don't see why not.
cheers
andrew