Re: [HACKERS] pg_guc

2003-06-27 Thread Aizaz Ahmed
On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 10:32, Tom Lane wrote: > Aizaz, if you look at backend/main/main.c it should be pretty obvious > how to handle this --- it's just like bootstrap mode. main.c kicks off > control to GucInfoMain or whatever we call it, and then that routine > can act pretty much the same as if

Re: [HACKERS] pg_guc

2003-06-27 Thread Tom Lane
Aizaz Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 11:52, Josh Berkus wrote: >> Are you suggesting putting a copy of the list of GUCs in a system table? I'd >> be for that > hmmm ... I thought what this meant was that we don't factor the tables > out into guc_vars.h, but leave

Re: [HACKERS] pg_guc

2003-06-27 Thread Aizaz Ahmed
On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 11:52, Josh Berkus wrote: > Are you suggesting putting a copy of the list of GUCs in a system table? I'd > be for that hmmm ... I thought what this meant was that we don't factor the tables out into guc_vars.h, but leave them in guc.c. (adding the descriptions etc. th

Re: [HACKERS] pg_guc

2003-06-27 Thread Tom Lane
Josh Berkus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Are you suggesting putting a copy of the list of GUCs in a system > table? Aizaz is not doing that, but see Joe Conway's proposed patch to pg_settings. regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)---

Re: [HACKERS] pg_guc

2003-06-27 Thread Josh Berkus
Tom, > Aizaz, if you look at backend/main/main.c it should be pretty obvious > how to handle this --- it's just like bootstrap mode. main.c kicks off > control to GucInfoMain or whatever we call it, and then that routine > can act pretty much the same as if it were the actual main() of a > standa

Re: [HACKERS] pg_guc

2003-06-27 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Fernando Nasser writes: >> We have a server side GUI utility that among other things let us configure GUC >> variables. We badly need to know what variables exist in the specific backend >> version, which are the min and max values and if possible a d

Re: [HACKERS] pg_guc

2003-06-27 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Fernando Nasser writes: > We have a server side GUI utility that among other things let us configure GUC > variables. We badly need to know what variables exist in the specific backend > version, which are the min and max values and if possible a description. In that case I think it's best to pu

Re: [HACKERS] pg_guc

2003-06-26 Thread Josh Berkus
Fernando, > We have a server side GUI utility that among other things let us configure GUC > variables. We badly need to know what variables exist in the specific backend > version, which are the min and max values and if possible a description. The > option is to hardwire these things int

[HACKERS] pg_guc

2003-06-26 Thread Fernando Nasser
Hi Peter, We have a server side GUI utility that among other things let us configure GUC variables. We badly need to know what variables exist in the specific backend version, which are the min and max values and if possible a description. The option is to hardwire these things into the code