Re: Proposal: knowing detail of config files via SQL

From: Sawada Masahiko <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: David Johnston <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Proposal: knowing detail of config files via SQL
Date: 2015-01-31 05:00:45
Message-ID: CAD21AoDACu70JEVQNKQ5GaJ3CB4qEMUykGv7a4vMCYXBjMkj4g@mail.gmail.com
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On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 4:56 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> David Johnston <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 12:05 PM, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> wrote:
>>> Why might the contents of pg_settings be different from what would be
>>> in pg_file_settings, apart from the existence of this column?
>
>> The contents of pg_settings uses the setting name as a primary key.
>> The contents of pg_file_setting uses a compound key consisting of the
>> setting name and the source file.
>
> [ raised eyebrow... ] Seems insufficient in the case that multiple
> settings of the same value occur in the same source file. Don't you
> need a line number in the key as well?
>

Yep, a line number is also needed.
The source file and line number would be primary key of pg_file_settings view.
I need to change like that.

Regards,

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Sawada Masahiko

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