Re: GUC patch for Win32

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> What about all the other global variables? Will there be a separate
> mechanism for each kind?

Good question. I am not sure yet. I figured I would hit the GUC ones
first because they are easy and all in one place, then see what others
exist in the Peer Direct patch.

Did I hit all the GUC structure members that need to be dumped --- name,
value, source?

>
> Bruce Momjian writes:
>
> > Here is a patch that saves the postmaster GUC state into a file to be
> > read in by exec'ed backends. This is a start toward a fork/exec option
> > for Unix (for testing) and a CreateProcess option for Win32.
> >
> > The patch basically writes all modified GUC variables to a binary file
> > that can be read in by newly created exec'ed backends.

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