Re: user defined settings (aka user defined guc variables) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: user defined settings (aka user defined guc variables)
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In response to user defined settings (aka user defined guc variables)  (Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>)
Responses Re: user defined settings (aka user defined guc variables)
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Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com> writes:
> I've been playing around with making it possible to create user defined guc 
> variables. This has been discussed, at least in passing, before. And it is 
> even anticipated in guc.c as a possible future feature:

It's fairly clear how the mechanisms for this would work.  What's less
clear to me is what's the point?  I do not see any reason to have a GUC
variable that isn't defined and used by some chunk of low-level C code.
        regards, tom lane


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