Joe Conway writes:
I'm wondering whether it would be a good thing or a bad thing to have
unrecognized settings found in postgresql.conf be registered as user defined
settings?
Certainly bad, since all error checking would go away. This is one of the
main reasons why registering settings at
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
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
Joe Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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:
It's fairly clear how the mechanisms for this
Tom Lane wrote:
Joe Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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:
It's fairly clear how the
What exactly can you do with these variables other than SHOW/SET. Seems
it would be nice if they could be used in queries, like in a special
table like sysvar:
SELECT sysvar.fsync;
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Joe Conway wrote:
I've been
- Original Message -
From: Gavin Sherry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Joe Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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
On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote:
What exactly can you do with these variables other than SHOW/SET. Seems
it would be nice if they could be used in queries, like in a special
table like sysvar:
SELECT sysvar.fsync;
Isn't that just identical to having a table?
Gavin
Gavin Sherry wrote:
On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote:
What exactly can you do with these variables other than SHOW/SET. Seems
it would be nice if they could be used in queries, like in a special
table like sysvar:
SELECT sysvar.fsync;
Isn't that just identical to having a table?
