Re: [patch] GUC source file and line number - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: [patch] GUC source file and line number
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Msg-id 20080829210911.GL3983@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: [patch] GUC source file and line number  (Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>)
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Robert Treat wrote:
> On Thursday 28 August 2008 13:08:58 Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> > This should make life easier for tools trying to find the config file
> > each setting is from (and possibly edit it).
> 
> If I have read this patch right, anything commented out (aka all of our 
> default values) will emit null in these fields... right?

Of course.

> Trying to decide just how helpful this will actually be for tool
> writers. 

Oh, it's easy -- just rip all the commented stuff out of the default
file.  It's useless anyway.

-- 
Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.


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