Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B3E96501AA for ; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 06:25:26 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 76607-03-5 for ; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 06:25:19 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from gattler.pezone.net (eisentraut.org [85.214.91.16]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D077764FD0F for ; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 06:25:10 -0300 (ADT) Received: from kodaira.local (unknown [193.65.93.109]) by gattler.pezone.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBCE315F07DE; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:25:08 +0000 (UTC) From: Peter Eisentraut To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Overhauling GUCS Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:25:21 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: Tom Lane , Gregory Stark , "Greg Smith" , "Michael Nacos" References: <7473.1212625397@sss.pgh.pa.us> <87y72u178j.fsf@oxford.xeocode.com> <3447.1219088424@sss.pgh.pa.us> In-Reply-To: <3447.1219088424@sss.pgh.pa.us> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200808191225.23039.peter_e@gmx.net> X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200808/812 X-Sequence-Number: 122566 Am Monday, 18. August 2008 schrieb Tom Lane: > The impression I get every time this comes up is that various people > have different problems they want to solve that (they think) require > redesign of the way GUC works.  Those complicated solutions arise from > attempting to satisfy N different demands simultaneously. Which may be the reason that I have been getting the impression that the "Problems" and the proposed resolutions on http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/GUCS_Overhaul are not really closely related. I can agree with the Problems, but then I am lost.