On Tue, Aug  6, 2013 at 10:58:52AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Tom Lane (t...@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> > =?iso-8859-1?q?C=E9dric_Villemain?= <ced...@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > > Maybe better to provide a contrib/ to modify config, then design what we 
> > > can 
> > > achieve more with an ALTER SYSTEM command.
> > 
> > Hmm ... putting the UI into a contrib module would neatly solve the
> > problem for people who don't want the functionality.  They just don't
> > install the module.  Another thought here is that it seems like we've
> > been discussing multiple scenarios that don't necessarily all have the
> > same best solution.  Maybe we should think in terms of multiple contrib
> > modules.
> 
> I'd certainly be happier with that- but it already exists, to some
> extent, in the form of the pgAdmin "adminpack" contrib module.  Perhaps
> we should be working on improving what we've already got there rather
> than adding something completely new..

Yes, "adminpack" has mostly read/write file I/O operations --- it would
need a higher-level API.

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  Bruce Momjian  <br...@momjian.us>        http://momjian.us
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