On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Joe Conway wrote: > I've been playing around with making it possible to create user defined guc > variables. This has been discussed, at least in passing, before. And it is > even anticipated in guc.c as a possible future feature: > /* > * Build the sorted array. This is split out so that it could be > * re-executed after startup (eg, we could allow loadable modules to > * add vars, and then we'd need to re-sort). > */ > > It is a feature that would be nice to have, so that, for example, a user > defined variable named "my_classpath" could be created to point to the java > CLASSPATH needed by a custom C function.
Hmm. Is GUC really the best place for something like that? (not that there is any other place :-)). Gavin ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/faq.html
