Re: Overhauling GUCS - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Greg Smith
Subject Re: Overhauling GUCS
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Msg-id Pine.GSO.4.64.0806061730410.27291@westnet.com
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In response to Re: Overhauling GUCS  (Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>)
Responses Re: Overhauling GUCS  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Fri, 6 Jun 2008, Gregory Stark wrote:

> "Greg Smith" <gsmith@gregsmith.com> writes:
>
>> 1) Is it worthwhile to expand the information stored in the GUC structure to
>> make it better capable of supporting machine generation and to provide more
>> information for tool authors via pg_settings?  The exact fields that should or
>> shouldn't be included remains controversial; consider "default value",
>> "per-session/runtime/restart", and "enum lists" as the list of things that are
>> most needed there.
>
> Isn't that a list of what's *already* there?

I should have been clearer there.  Some of the items suggested are already 
in the structure, but aren't visible via pg_settings. In those cases it's 
just exporting information that's already there.  In others (like the 
suggestion to add a URL to the documentation) it is actually a new field 
being added as well as its corresponding entry in the settings view.

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* Greg Smith gsmith@gregsmith.com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD


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