Re: Advice regarding configuration parameters

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Thomas Hallgren <thhal(at)mailblocks(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Advice regarding configuration parameters
Date: 2004-02-08 04:59:25
Message-ID: 27973.1076216365@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> I have been thinking for some time about a generic mechanism to
>> configure procedural languages. It could be a text array in
>> pg_language that you could fill at will.

> One big question is whether the per-language variables are per-server or
> per-database. The might determine if you want them in the database or
> in a configuration file.

Of course, there's already a solution for that in GUC.

Given all the work Peter put into GUC (for very good reasons), I was a
tad astonished to read him proposing to develop a non-GUC mechanism
for configuring PLs.

regards, tom lane

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