Re: shared_preload_libraries path

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Geoghegan <peter(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: shared_preload_libraries path
Date: 2012-05-24 14:36:00
Message-ID: 19737.1337870160@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Peter Geoghegan <peter(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> On 24 May 2012 13:09, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
>> Would i make sense to have a postgresql.conf parameter that would add
>> to LD_LIBRARY_PATH when loading libraries from
>> shared_preload_libraries (and other library loads). To make it
>> possible to configure it without having to mess around with the
>> operating system configuration? Or is that too much reimplementing OS
>> functionality?

> -1, I'm afraid.

I think the same. Aside from the problems Peter points out, there are
too many different ways to spell that variable name on different
platforms.

regards, tom lane

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