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

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: user defined settings (aka user defined guc variables)
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.44.0212192235380.1005-100000@localhost.localdomain
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In response to user defined settings (aka user defined guc variables)  (Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>)
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Joe Conway writes:

> I'm wondering whether it would be "a good thing" or "a bad thing" to have
> unrecognized settings found in postgresql.conf be registered as user defined
> settings?

Certainly bad, since all error checking would go away.  This is one of the
main reasons why registering settings at run-time won't work.  If you need
to store data, use tables.

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net



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