Re: Eurodates by default

Yury Bokhoncovich wrote:
> [...]
>
> Folks, I do not see any serious reason to avoid compile-time option for
> people whom know what they are doing. The rest can sleep with peace w/o
> it. Contrary, the benefit for me is certain: skipping unneccesary checks.
> If somebody does not know about, this means that man can live without it.
> There is many option in various software which i do not know what is
> it for. Nevertheless this prevents neither me nor packagers to compile
> with necessary options only.
> "IF" will cost something, why did it need if I ALWAYS set the same
> condition? This will be just an optional feature.
>
> >
> > What we want to do is integrate the SET DateStyle variable into GUC
> > somehow, but I'm not entirely happy with the current behavior and have
> > been unable to agree with Thomas Lockhart on how to do it. But it will
> > get done eventually.
>
> In case of DateStyle I need a values which will set Postgres,Euro per
> one hop. And there should be "-e" option in postmaster. Suggestions?

As suggested before, do it with GUC variables. This means you
can have compile time defaults that can be overridden in the
config file or with startup options.

GUC variables are the preferred mechanism for that sort of
thing nowadays in the PostgreSQL project. It might look easy
to you to code it as "-e" now, but add the amount of effort
you'd need to get that into the CVS (could be infinite) and
you'll realize that it's finally not the easy way.

Jan

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