Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> Marc Munro wrote:
>> I want Veil (http://pgfoundry.org/projects/veil/) to be able to read
>> configuration details from a configuration file.
> What kind of details? By the time any server-side module is loaded, the
> configuration file has already been read, so why would you need to read
> it again?
Probably the correct question is whether Marc's problem isn't already
solved by the "custom GUC variable" mechanism --- that is, whatever he
wants to configure should be defined as "custom" GUCs within the
existing configuration file.
regards, tom lane