Chris Bitmead <chrisb@nimrod.itg.telstra.com.au> writes:
>>>> Why a configuration file? Why not a configuration table?
>>
>> Circularity. A lot of this stuff has to be known before we dare touch
>> the database at all.
> Aren't there other things like pg_database that survive this problem?
Er, have you dug into the code that does the initial access of
pg_database? I want to get rid of that kluge, not add more...
regards, tom lane
