Re: [PERFORM] Configurator project launched

2005-06-25 Thread Andreas Pflug
Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: I wonder if this could be combined with the configurator somehow. Currently, integration won't work with Perl, so maybe C for the core and Perl for the interactive part would be better. Probably so. Seems there is a bit of convergent evolution going on. When I

Re: [PERFORM] Configurator project launched

2005-06-24 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sounds a little similar to what's in pgAdmin CVS right now. The configuration editor can retrieve the config file and display configured and active setting concurrently, together with explanations taken from pg_settings (when not run against a

Re: [PERFORM] Configurator project launched

2005-06-22 Thread Andreas Pflug
Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: Um, can't we just get that from pg_settings? Anyway, I'll be deriving settings from the .conf file, since most of the time the Configurator will be run on a new installation. Aren't most of the settings all kept in the SHOW variables anyway? As I said, it may

[PERFORM] Configurator project launched

2005-06-21 Thread Josh Berkus
Folks, OK, I've checked in my first code module and the configurator project is officially launched. Come join us at www.pgfoundry.org/projects/configurator Further communications will be on the Configurator mailing list only. from the spec: What is the Configurator, and Why do We Need It?

Re: [PERFORM] Configurator project launched

2005-06-21 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Josh Berkus wrote: Greg, Not sure how far along you are, but I've been writing some really nifty extensions to DBD::Pg that allow easy querying of all the current run-time settings. Could be very useful to this project, seems to me. If you're interested in possibly using it, let me know, I

Re: [PERFORM] Configurator project launched

2005-06-21 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Um, can't we just get that from pg_settings? Anyway, I'll be deriving settings from the .conf file, since most of the time the Configurator will be run on a new installation. Aren't most of the settings all kept in the SHOW variables anyway?