Re: Plugins redux (was Re: [PATCHES] PL instrumentation

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "korryd(at)enterprisedb(dot)com" <korryd(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Plugins redux (was Re: [PATCHES] PL instrumentation
Date: 2006-08-10 06:45:23
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On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 18:04 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> BTW, is anyone up for renaming the existing "preload_libraries"
> variable
> >> to "postmaster_load_libraries"? This would be more symmetrical
> with
> >> "backend_load_libraries", and so perhaps clearer about which does
> what
>
> > Makes sense to me, of course that breaks existing postgresql.conf
> files.
>
> We already broke them by removing the init-function name...

How about:

shared_load_libraries (rather than postmaster_load_libraries)
local_load_libraries (rather than backend_load_libraries)

which is more informative for people that don't know/care what a
postmaster or a backend is and what implications those phrases carry.

--
Simon Riggs
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

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