On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 18:04 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> BTW, is anyone up for renaming the existing "preload_libraries"
> variable
> >> to "postmaster_load_libraries"? This would be more symmetrical
> with
> >> "backend_load_libraries", and so perhaps clearer about which does
> what
>
> > Makes sense to me, of course that breaks existing postgresql.conf
> files.
>
> We already broke them by removing the init-function name...
How about:
shared_load_libraries (rather than postmaster_load_libraries)
local_load_libraries (rather than backend_load_libraries)
which is more informative for people that don't know/care what a
postmaster or a backend is and what implications those phrases carry.
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