| From: | Steve Crawford <scrawford(at)pinpointresearch(dot)com> |
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| To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Cc: | rod(at)iol(dot)ie, Laurent ROCHE <laurent_roche(at)yahoo(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Re : Abbreviation list |
| Date: | 2007-10-19 15:17:48 |
| Message-ID: | 4718CA9C.9080001@pinpointresearch.com |
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Steve Crawford wrote:
>> Raymond O'Donnell wrote:
>>> On 18/10/2007 22:26, Laurent ROCHE wrote:
>>>
>>>> No idea what GUC is, though !
>>> Grand Unified Contraption? ;-)
>>>
>>> Ray (who's just been reading Jules Verne).
>> It's Global User Configuration. But the confusion does point out the
>> need for a reference.
>
> I think it is Grand Unified Configuration actually ... what does Verne
> use? I don't know the reference.
>
I knew someone would correct any errors. I searched high and low and
stopped when I saw the first reasonable sounding explanation:
http://www.varlena.com/GeneralBits/Tidbits/annotated_conf_e.html
Searching Google'"Global User Configuration" postgresql guc' yields 700
results. Altering that to "Grand Unified Configuration" yields 1,570.
Confusion apparently abounds.
Cheers,
Steve
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