Re: Extensions and custom_variable_classes

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Dimitri Fontaine
<dimitri(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> The effect of that has to be that the postmaster adds a certain amount
>> of space to PostgreSQL's initial shared memory allocation.  That means
>> the postmaster has to know that pg_stat_statements is a valid custom
>> variable class.
>
> Ah. Yes. Indeed. So you still needed to edit postgresql.conf in such
> cases. Well there's only 1 contrib module that touches SHM, but is also
> happen to be the only one that needs custom_variable_classes support…
>
> Meanwhile, the custom_variable_classes related code has been removed
> from the extension's git branch, and the WITH ENCODING option is no more
> (the control file encoding is still there and defaults to UTF-8).
>
> Will continue collecting improvements ideas and cleanup needs as we go,
> unless you prefer to see new patches (they are easy enough to produce).
>
>  http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql-extension.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/extension

Patches are better for me, anyway...

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