Re: Making config file parser available to add-ins - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Making config file parser available to add-ins
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Msg-id 12997.1153766677@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Making config file parser available to add-ins  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
Responses Re: Making config file parser available to add-ins  (Marc Munro <marc@bloodnok.com>)
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> Marc Munro wrote:
>> I want Veil (http://pgfoundry.org/projects/veil/) to be able to read
>> configuration details from a configuration file.

> What kind of details?  By the time any server-side module is loaded, the 
> configuration file has already been read, so why would you need to read 
> it again?

Probably the correct question is whether Marc's problem isn't already
solved by the "custom GUC variable" mechanism --- that is, whatever he
wants to configure should be defined as "custom" GUCs within the
existing configuration file.
        regards, tom lane


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