Re: user defined settings (aka user defined guc variables)

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
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 05:12:18
Message-ID: 15520.1040274738@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com> writes:
> 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:

It's fairly clear how the mechanisms for this would work. What's less
clear to me is what's the point? I do not see any reason to have a GUC
variable that isn't defined and used by some chunk of low-level C code.

regards, tom lane

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