Re: Contrib -- PostgreSQL shared variables - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Treat
Subject Re: Contrib -- PostgreSQL shared variables
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Msg-id 200408302158.32439.xzilla@users.sourceforge.net
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In response to Re: Contrib -- PostgreSQL shared variables  (pgsql@mohawksoft.com)
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On Monday 30 August 2004 09:50, pgsql@mohawksoft.com wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 09:24:59AM -0400, pgsql@mohawksoft.com wrote:
> > What's the advantage of instead stuffing these in-memory variables
> > into PostgreSQL?  That it still works correctly and simply even if you
> > have a farm of 10 separate web servers sitting in front of it?  That
> > could be useful for certain applications, but is there any more to it
> > than that?
>
> Isn't "that could be useful for certain applications" enough of a reason
> to add something to contrib?
>

That's enough of a reason to add something to *gborg*, but I can think of a 
lot of things I would rather see the postgresql major contributors 
maintaining than this.. especially when you consider that we've already 
removed things like jdbc from contrib. 

-- 
Robert Treat
Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL


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