What about all the other global variables? Will there be a separate
mechanism for each kind?
Bruce Momjian writes:
> Here is a patch that saves the postmaster GUC state into a file to be
> read in by exec'ed backends. This is a start toward a fork/exec option
> for Unix (for testing) and a CreateProcess option for Win32.
>
> The patch basically writes all modified GUC variables to a binary file
> that can be read in by newly created exec'ed backends.
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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net