| From: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
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| To: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine(at)hi-media(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Csaba Nagy <nagy(at)ecircle-ag(dot)com>, Aidan Van Dyk <aidan(at)highrise(dot)ca> |
| Subject: | Re: Permanent settings |
| Date: | 2008-02-21 09:27:52 |
| Message-ID: | 20080221092752.GG8138@svr2.hagander.net |
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On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 06:14:27PM -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:42:02 -0500
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
>
> > All this discussion seems to me to be going off into the clouds,
> > where every objection is met with some still more elaborate scheme. I
> > think we need to look at simple, incremental, and if possible
> > backwards compatible changes.
>
> The simplest solution I can think of is:
>
> Have a table pg_configuration (pg_settings?).
>
> Allow that table to be inserted into but not updated or deleted from.
<snip>
This pretty much kills the ability for people who *want* to edit things
from the config file only, right? I don't think that's acceptable. At least
not if it's at all avoidable, which I think it is.
//Magnus
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