Retrieving information about the installed version of Greenplum Database

pg_config utility prints configuration parameters of the currently installed version of Greenplum Database.

Options

--bindir => Print the location of user executables. Use this, for example, to find the psql program. This is normally also the location where the pg_config

program resides.

--docdir => Print the location of documentation files.

--includedir =>Print the location of C header files of the client interfaces.

--pkgincludedir =>Print the location of other C header files.

--includedir-server=>Print the location of C header files for server programming.

--libdir=>Print the location of object code libraries.

--pkglibdir=>Print the location of dynamically loadable modules, or where the server would search for them. (Other architecture-dependent data files may also be installed in this directory.)

--localedir=>Print the location of locale support files.

--mandir=>Print the location of manual pages.

--sharedir=>Print the location of architecture-independent support files.

--sysconfdir=>Print the location of system-wide configuration files.

--pgxs=>Print the location of extension makefiles.

--configure=>Print the options that were given to the configure script when Greenplum Database was configured for building.

--cc=>Print the value of the CC variable that was used for building Greenplum Database. This shows the C compiler used.

--cppflags=>Print the value of the CPPFLAGS variable that was used for building Greenplum Database. This shows C compiler switches needed at preprocessing time.

--cflags=>Print the value of the CFLAGS variable that was used for building Greenplum Database. This shows C compiler switches.

--cflags_sl=>Print the value of the CFLAGS_SL variable that was used for building Greenplum Database. This shows extra C compiler switches used for building shared libraries.

--ldflags=>Print the value of the LDFLAGS variable that was used for building Greenplum Database. This shows linker switches.

--ldflags_sl=>Print the value of the LDFLAGS_SL variable that was used for building Greenplum Database. This shows linker switches used for building shared libraries.

--libs=>Print the value of the LIBS variable that was used for building Greenplum Database. This normally contains -l switches for external libraries linked into Greenplum Database.

--version=>Print the version of Greenplum Database.

Running HELP on pg_config shows following options.

[gpadmin@sachi ]$ pg_config --help

pg_config provides information about the installed version of PostgreSQL.

Usage:

pg_config [OPTION]...

Options:

--bindir show location of user executables

--docdir show location of documentation files

--htmldir show location of HTML documentation files

--includedir show location of C header files of the client interfaces

--pkgincludedir show location of other C header files

--includedir-server show location of C header files for the server

--libdir show location of object code libraries

--pkglibdir show location of dynamically loadable modules

--localedir show location of locale support files

--mandir show location of manual pages

--sharedir show location of architecture-independent support files

--sysconfdir show location of system-wide configuration files

--pgxs show location of extension makefile

--configure show options given to "configure" script when PostgreSQL was built

--cc show CC value used when PostgreSQL was built

--cppflags show CPPFLAGS value used when PostgreSQL was built

--cflags show CFLAGS value used when PostgreSQL was built

--cflags_sl show CFLAGS_SL value used when PostgreSQL was built

--ldflags show LDFLAGS value used when PostgreSQL was built

--ldflags_sl show LDFLAGS_SL value used when PostgreSQL was built

--libs show LIBS value used when PostgreSQL was built

--version show the PostgreSQL version

--help show this help, then exit

With no arguments, all known items are shown.

Report bugs to <pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org>.

Examples

To reproduce the build configuration of the current Greenplum Database installation, run the following command:eval ./configure 'pg_config --configure'

The output of pg_config --configure contains shell quotation marks so arguments with spaces are represented correctly. Therefore, using eval is required for proper results.