<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >pg_config</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79"><LINK REV="MADE" HREF="mailto:pgsql-docs@postgresql.org"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PostgreSQL 9.6.19 Documentation" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="System Catalogs" HREF="catalogs.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="pg_available_extension_versions" HREF="view-pg-available-extension-versions.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="pg_cursors" HREF="view-pg-cursors.html"><LINK REL="STYLESHEET" TYPE="text/css" HREF="stylesheet.css"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><META NAME="creation" CONTENT="2020-09-02T07:27:19"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="SECT1" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="4" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="index.html" >PostgreSQL 9.6.19 Documentation</A ></TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A TITLE="pg_available_extension_versions" HREF="view-pg-available-extension-versions.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="catalogs.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="60%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Chapter 50. System Catalogs</TD ><TD WIDTH="20%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A TITLE="pg_cursors" HREF="view-pg-cursors.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="VIEW-PG-CONFIG" >50.60. <TT CLASS="STRUCTNAME" >pg_config</TT ></A ></H1 ><P > The view <TT CLASS="STRUCTNAME" >pg_config</TT > describes the compile-time configuration parameters of the currently installed version of <SPAN CLASS="PRODUCTNAME" >PostgreSQL</SPAN >. It is intended, for example, to be used by software packages that want to interface to <SPAN CLASS="PRODUCTNAME" >PostgreSQL</SPAN > to facilitate finding the required header files and libraries. It provides the same basic information as the <A HREF="app-pgconfig.html" >pg_config</A > <SPAN CLASS="PRODUCTNAME" >PostgreSQL</SPAN > client application. </P ><P > By default, the <TT CLASS="STRUCTNAME" >pg_config</TT > view can be read only by superusers. </P ><DIV CLASS="TABLE" ><A NAME="AEN111448" ></A ><P ><B >Table 50-61. <TT CLASS="STRUCTNAME" >pg_config</TT > Columns</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="1" CLASS="CALSTABLE" ><COL><COL><COL><THEAD ><TR ><TH >Name</TH ><TH >Type</TH ><TH >Description</TH ></TR ></THEAD ><TBODY ><TR ><TD ><TT CLASS="STRUCTFIELD" >name</TT ></TD ><TD ><TT CLASS="TYPE" >text</TT ></TD ><TD >The parameter name</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ><TT CLASS="STRUCTFIELD" >setting</TT ></TD ><TD ><TT CLASS="TYPE" >text</TT ></TD ><TD >The parameter value</TD ></TR ></TBODY ></TABLE ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="view-pg-available-extension-versions.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="view-pg-cursors.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><TT CLASS="STRUCTNAME" >pg_available_extension_versions</TT ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="catalogs.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><TT CLASS="STRUCTNAME" >pg_cursors</TT ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >