Re: exposing pg_controldata and pg_config as functions

On 9/7/15 7:32 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> 
>> I already gave a use case that you dismissed in favour of a vague solution
>> that we don't actually have. You seem to be the only person objecting to
>> this proposal.
> 
> I think that use case would be better served by a completely different
> interface -- some way to query the server, "does this installation
> support feature X?"  What you proposed, using a regexp to look for
> --enable-xml in the pg_config --configure output, doesn't look all that
> nice to me.

Agreed.