Re: About the pid and opts files

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Chris Bitmead <chrisb(at)nimrod(dot)itg(dot)telstra(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: About the pid and opts files
Date: 2000-06-26 04:16:53
Message-ID: 12100.961993013@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Chris Bitmead <chrisb(at)nimrod(dot)itg(dot)telstra(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
>>>> Why a configuration file? Why not a configuration table?
>>
>> Circularity. A lot of this stuff has to be known before we dare touch
>> the database at all.

> Aren't there other things like pg_database that survive this problem?

Er, have you dug into the code that does the initial access of
pg_database? I want to get rid of that kluge, not add more...

regards, tom lane

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