On tis, 2011-05-10 at 22:20 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > My conclusion about all this is that we really need to invent another > GucSource value falling between PGC_S_DEFAULT and PGC_S_ENV_VAR, > called perhaps PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT, for the purpose of denoting > values that are defaults in terms of the precedence pecking order but > are not simply the hard-wired boot values. There's no real need for > clients to see the difference, so we could have the external > representation in pg_settings be "default" for both, but guc.c really > needs to be aware of which settings are truly boot values and which > are not. > > Comments?
Makes a lot of sense. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
