Re: revised sample SRF C function; proposed SRF API

From: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: "Joe Conway" <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "pgsql-hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: revised sample SRF C function; proposed SRF API
Date: 2002-06-10 06:21:56
Message-ID: GNELIHDDFBOCMGBFGEFOMEKLCCAA.chriskl@familyhealth.com.au
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> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Well, we're not doing that; and I see no good reason to make the thing
> > be a builtin function at all. Since it's just an example, it can very
> > well be a contrib item with a creation script. Probably *should* be,
> > in fact, because dynamically created functions are what other people are
> > going to be building; an example of how to do it as a builtin function
> > isn't as helpful.
>
> True enough, although I could always create another example for contrib.
> Returning GUC variable "SHOW ALL" results as a query result has been
> discussed before, and I thought there was agreement that it was a
> desirable backend feature.

Sure would be. Means we can show config variables nicely in phpPgAdmin like
phpMyAdmin does...

Chris

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