Received: from malur.postgresql.org ([217.196.149.56]) by arkaria.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oVLrM-0006rD-8s for pgsql-hackers@arkaria.postgresql.org; Mon, 05 Sep 2022 23:50:32 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=malur.postgresql.org) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oVLrJ-0008Oz-Ni for pgsql-hackers@arkaria.postgresql.org; Mon, 05 Sep 2022 23:50:29 +0000 Received: from magus.postgresql.org ([2a02:c0:301:0:ffff::29]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oVLrJ-0008Op-E0 for pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org; Mon, 05 Sep 2022 23:50:29 +0000 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us ([66.207.139.130]) by magus.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oVLrH-0006xy-6n for pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org; Mon, 05 Sep 2022 23:50:29 +0000 Received: from sss1.sss.pgh.pa.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id 285NoMj42994557; Mon, 5 Sep 2022 19:50:22 -0400 From: Tom Lane To: Andres Freund cc: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org Subject: Re: Modernizing our GUC infrastructure In-reply-to: <20220905233233.jhcu5jqsrtosmgh5@awork3.anarazel.de> References: <2982579.1662416866@sss.pgh.pa.us> <20220905233233.jhcu5jqsrtosmgh5@awork3.anarazel.de> Comments: In-reply-to Andres Freund message dated "Mon, 05 Sep 2022 16:32:33 -0700" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <2994555.1662421822.1@sss.pgh.pa.us> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2022 19:50:22 -0400 Message-ID: <2994556.1662421822@sss.pgh.pa.us> List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: Archived-At: Precedence: bulk Andres Freund writes: > It's only half related, but since we're talking about renovating guc.c: = I > think it'd be good if we split the list of GUCs from the rest of the guc > machinery. Both for humans and compilers it's getting pretty large. And > commonly one either wants to edit the definition of GUCs or wants to edi= t the > GUC machinery. I don't mind doing that, but it seems like an independent patch. regards, tom lane