| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Overhauling GUCS |
| Date: | 2008-06-05 16:24:00 |
| Message-ID: | 20080605162400.GF16502@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Greg Smith wrote:
> Where Josh got hung up, where I got hung up, where Lance Campbell stopped
> at with his Dummies tool, and what some unknown number of other people
> have been twarted by, is that taking that knowledge and turning it into a
> tool useful to users is surprisingly difficult. The reason for that is
> the current postgresql.conf file and how it maps internally to GUC
> information isn't particularly well suited to automated generation,
> analysis, or updates.
What I think this says is that we should be pushing Magnus more to
continue work on the configuration API thing he was designing.
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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support
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