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Re: Exposing DEFAULT_PGSOCKET_DIR via a libpq function?

Darcy Buskermolen <darcy@wavefire.com>

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From: Darcy Buskermolen <darcy@wavefire.com>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Cc: "Larry Rosenman" <lrosenman@pervasive.com>
Date: 2006-03-28T22:33:23Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Tuesday 28 March 2006 14:07, Larry Rosenman wrote:
> Greetings,
>     After helping a user on irc, I was wondering if there would be any
> objection
> to my making a patch that would:
>
> 1) expose DEFAULT_PGSOCKET_DIR via a libpq call
> 2) add this information to the psql --version output (or some other
> switch, I'm agnostic).
>
> for those weird times when some distro changes it, and you then
> overwrite parts of it,
> it would be useful for diagnostics.

is it not shown by, (if it's not default of /tmp) ?
pg_config --configure

>
> Comments?
>
> LER

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