I have the feeling it wouldn't have been accepted because it was kind of 'arbitrary'. It's generally a good idea to ask the -hackers list first if a patch is worth writing before actually writing it ;)
Ah well, it was worth the experience.
On Feb 10, 2004, at 10:30 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
But I'm not eager to support environment variables for things that can
be set those ways. There are a heck of a lot of SET variables --- would
we want an env var for each one?
I agree; simpler is better and there's already a simple way to do it. The environment's polluted enough as it is.
thanks,
/s.
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