Re: [patch] GUC source file and line number]

From: Joshua Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [patch] GUC source file and line number]
Date: 2008-09-03 20:07:46
Message-ID: 20080903130746.2bcd103e@jd-laptop
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On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 16:04:12 -0400 (EDT)
Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com> wrote:

> Section question: with those changes, would it then be reasonable to
> you to keep that column named "default" instead of giving it a less
> common name?
>
> > You are adopting a very narrow mindset, which seems to be that only
> > DBAs look at this view.
>
> DBAs are the only group I am always getting questions in this area
> from. Everybody else seemed happy with the status quo, where the
> value wasn't exposed at all and you just looked in guc.c to see what
> it was.

I guess I would ask, "Who else would we be targeting this for?". DBAs
seem to be the only logical choice.

Joshua D. Drake
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