Re: Why not install pgstattuple by default?

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

Cc: Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler@timbira.com>, Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@gmail.com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Josh Berkus <josh.berkus@pgexperts.com>, postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2011-05-08T12:48:30Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On sön, 2011-05-08 at 07:21 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> As I said there: "to see how the libraries are configured, for example."
> 
> Just the other day I wanted to know what compilation options had been 
> used for a particular installation. pg_config wasn't installed because 
> the -devel package wasn't installed, and it would have saved me quite 
> some time if pg_config had been available.
> 
> Another example is to find out what the installation is using for 
> shares, the service directory and so on.

Yeah, those are decent reasons.