On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Joe Conway wrote:
> 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:
> /*
> * Build the sorted array. This is split out so that it could be
> * re-executed after startup (eg, we could allow loadable modules to
> * add vars, and then we'd need to re-sort).
> */
>
> It is a feature that would be nice to have, so that, for example, a user
> defined variable named "my_classpath" could be created to point to the java
> CLASSPATH needed by a custom C function.
Hmm. Is GUC really the best place for something like that? (not that there
is any other place :-)).
Gavin
