Re: Exposing DEFAULT_PGSOCKET_DIR via a libpq function?

Tom Lane wrote:
> "Larry Rosenman" <ler@lerctr.org> writes:
>> The other issue is borked installs where the server and libpq
>>  disagree. What I'm looking for is to expose what libpq has for it's
>> default as well as what the server is using.  There is currently  no
>> way to determine what libpq has for it's default.  What happened in
>> the irc case was a partial re-install  with non-matching server and
>> libpq. 
> 
> [ shrug... ]  So?  There isn't going to be any way that
> random-app-using-libpq is going to have a way to tell the user what
> the underlying copy of libpq is using for this default --- adding a
> call for that will be nothing more nor less than a waste of code
> space.  You'd be best off running strings(1) over the libpq.so file
> when the question comes up.    

That's making the assumption that you know which libpq.  I was hoping to
have a psql commandline
Switch to dump the info, but with your objection(s), I'll just crawl back
under my rock.

 
> 
> 			regards, tom lane



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