From: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Getting available options |
Date: | 2008-02-21 11:37:08 |
Message-ID: | 20080221113708.GW8138@svr2.hagander.net |
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On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 05:59:27PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 14:22 +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> >> I'd like to add a way for a client (in this case, typicallyi pgadmin,
> >> phppgadmin or similar) to get the available options on the server for the
> >> GUC settings we have that take fixed options. This is to make it possible
> >> to generate pretty dropdown lists of the options.
>
> > How will this work with custom variable classes?
>
> Anything like this will involve an API change in the guc stuff, so
> that doesn't seem insurmountable.
>
> I like the idea that was mentioned upthread of creating a new "enum"
> category for GUC variables, instead of continuing to abuse the rather
> inefficient "string" category for the purpose. One reason is that
> we then would not be faced with making an incompatible change in
> the arguments of DefineCustomStringVariable.
Yeah, I liked that one as well - I'm going to look at doing that, and will
present some code as soon as I can to discuss the exact implementation. I
don't think it'll be too much work.
//Magnus
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