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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Manav Kumar <mkumar@yugabyte.com>
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Subject: Re: Confirming precedence order of Default for GUCs
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Manav Kumar <mkumar@yugabyte.com> writes:
> Can you please correct me regarding the precedence order of overriding the
> DEFAULT values for GUC's.

The precedence order is determined by the GucSource enum:

https://github.com/postgres/postgres/blob/master/src/include/utils/guc.h#L111

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