Re: Jan Engelhardt 2019-03-22 <nycvar.YFH.7.76.1903221354530.7557@xxxxxxxxxx> > >> At least in openSUSE, PostgreSQL 11 no longer ships the pg_config > >> program. Instead, there is has been a pkg-config file around for a > >> while (also in pg10), so make use of that, by default. > > > >Debian ships pg_config. In fact, the same package libpq-dev [0] contains both > >things: > > > >* /usr/bin/pg_config > >* /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/libpq.pc > > pg_config is regarded for the server part only, says the respective maintainer. > https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1120035#c1 That is wishful thinking. It would be nice if all client-side applications would use pkg-config to interface to libpq, but state of things is still that pg_config is used by many (most?) of them. That choice tries to force everyone to switch. If openSUSE wants to fight that fight, good luck. `pg_config --libs` should not be used for linking client-side apps. Thats an artifact from server-side linking. Christoph
