Re: exposing pg_controldata and pg_config as functions

On 8/20/15 9:59 AM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> The regression tests thus passed, but should not have. It occurred to me
> that if we had a test like
> 
>     select pg_config('configure') ~ '--with-libxml' as has_xml;
> 
> in the xml tests then this failure mode would be detected.

This particular case could probably be addressed in a less roundabout
way by enhancing the mapping mechanism in pg_regress.