Re: Some questions on user defined types and functions.

From: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Jeffery Collins <collins(at)onyx-technologies(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: Some questions on user defined types and functions.
Date: 2000-07-27 05:52:27
Message-ID: 397FCE1B.5472445F@alumni.caltech.edu
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> Well, that's a good question. Does anyone else have an opinion on
> whether this would be a good/bad/indifferent feature? We've seen
> problems in the past caused by depending on postmaster environment
> variables (restart the postmaster with different environment than
> usual, things mysteriously break). So I'm inclined to feel that adding
> more dependence on them isn't such a hot idea. But I'm not going to
> veto it if there's interest in the feature from other people.

As usual, I would like to see *more* support for environment variables
etc. This would fall into that category. You can choose to use it, or
choose to not, but the system has *more* flexibility when all is said
and done.

There is code in the postmaster which does the same thing, nearly. You
might want to check out the implementation there...

- Thomas

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