From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.com>
Cc: Michael Nacos <m.nacos@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Overhauling GUCS
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 17:18:55 -0400
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Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.com> writes:
> Josh Berkus and I have been exchanging some ideas for the GUC internals
> overhaul and had a quick discussion about that in person last month.
> We've been gravitating toward putting all the extra information we'd like
> to push into there in an extra catalog table (pg_settings_info or
> something). The stuff the server needs to start can stay right where it
> is right now, all the other decoration can move to the table.
Somehow, the attraction of that idea escapes me.
What we have now was named Grand Unified Configuration for a reason:
it centralized the handling of what had been a mess of different things
configured in different ways. I'm not eager to go backwards on that.
I'm also interested to know exactly what such a table would provide
that isn't already available in the form of the pg_settings view.
regards, tom lane
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