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From: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Overhauling GUCS
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:11:22 +0200
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Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> Greg Smith wrote:
>>
>>> Where Josh got hung up, where I got hung up, where Lance Campbell
>>> stopped at with his Dummies tool, and what some unknown number of
>>> other people  have been twarted by, is that taking that knowledge and
>>> turning it into a tool useful to users is surprisingly difficult. 
>>> The reason for that is  the current postgresql.conf file and how it
>>> maps internally to GUC  information isn't particularly well suited to
>>> automated generation,  analysis, or updates.
>>
>> What I think this says is that we should be pushing Magnus more to
>> continue work on the configuration API thing he was designing.
> 
> There's some magic in pgAdmin to parse and write the file. You could
> take a look a that.

Not really. You don't want to go there. We really need a "proper API"
for it, and the stuff in pgAdmin isn't even enough to base one on.

//Magnus




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