| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Steve Crawford <scrawford(at)pinpointresearch(dot)com>, rod(at)iol(dot)ie, Laurent ROCHE <laurent_roche(at)yahoo(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Re : Abbreviation list |
| Date: | 2007-10-19 02:52:59 |
| Message-ID: | 3008.1192762379@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> Steve Crawford wrote:
>> Raymond O'Donnell wrote:
>>>> On 18/10/2007 22:26, Laurent ROCHE wrote:
>>>> No idea what GUC is, though !
>>
>> It's Global User Configuration. But the confusion does point out the
>> need for a reference.
> I think it is Grand Unified Configuration actually ...
Alvaro remembers correctly. Peter invented the term when he proposed
replacing a bunch of ad-hoc configuration thingies with one mechanism:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2000-03/msg00107.php
If you don't remember how things worked before that, be glad ;-)
regards, tom lane
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