From: | Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Andreas Pflug <Andreas(dot)Pflug(at)web(dot)de>, Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, "Patches (PostgreSQL)" <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] allowed user/db variables |
Date: | 2003-06-26 01:09:42 |
Message-ID: | 3EFA47D6.5080509@joeconway.com |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com> writes:
>>Here is a patch to expand pg_settings. I included more than discussed
>>because it was easy and I thought it might be useful. Let me know if you
>>want some of them removed.
>
> Much of what you've included is part of the internal implementation of
> GUC, and I think it's unwise to expose it; any future changes in GUC
> might break the view (or more accurately break apps that are expecting
> the view to look a particular way).
>
> I agree with adding context, vartype, min_val, and max_val. Not sure
> about boot_val or reset_val. The RH guys do want to expose boot_val
> in their tool, since it's concerned with helping people set up
> postgresql.conf, but is it really useful for clients to see it?
> reset_val might be okay to expose ... not sure if we'd ever want to
> remove that concept from the implementation.
I thought you might say that. What about this list:
name
setting
context
vartype
source
min_val
max_val
ISTM that "source" is worth knowing.
>>name | DateStyle
>>setting | ISO with US (NonEuropean) conventions
>
> This reminds me, someone (Barry?) was griping that SHOW DATESTYLE
> doesn't produce a value that SET DATESTYLE will take. Did we agree
> that it was OK to change the output to look like "ISO, US" etc?
I vaguely remember the thread:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2003-05/msg00190.php
I don't see any followup (agreements or disagreements). Do you want me
to change that while I'm at it?
Joe
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