From: | "Joe Conway" <joe(at)conway-family(dot)com> |
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To: | "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, "Bruce Momjian" <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | "Jim Buttafuoco" <jim(at)buttafuoco(dot)net>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Running config vars |
Date: | 2001-05-18 17:54:59 |
Message-ID: | 004e01c0dfc3$a9af5230$54d410ac@jecw2k1 |
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> Bruce Momjian writes:
>
> > I will try to get this feature into 7.2, though as backend code.
>
> I've long been thinking that the SET/RESET/SHOW commands could be
> implemented as stored procedures and/or functions. That way you could
> cleanly return the settings to the client application and compose new
> values out of arbitrary expressions. If ever functions can return
> multiple rows you could also arrange for them to show all current
> settings.
I added a function to the c library that I sent to patches the other day --
called "get_var". It implements what you describe above (that is, one
variable at a time). I'd like to get this into contrib, or do the work
necessary to get it into the backend -- any interest in letting me give that
a try?
Thanks,
Joe
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