| From: | Gavin Sherry <swm(at)linuxworld(dot)com(dot)au> |
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| To: | Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: user defined settings (aka user defined guc variables) |
| Date: | 2002-12-19 01:24:00 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.21.0212191220040.32545-100000@linuxworld.com.au |
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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
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