Re: user defined settings (aka user defined guc variables)

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: user defined settings (aka user defined guc variables)
Date: 2002-12-19 23:45:00
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.44.0212192235380.1005-100000@localhost.localdomain
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Joe Conway writes:

> I'm wondering whether it would be "a good thing" or "a bad thing" to have
> unrecognized settings found in postgresql.conf be registered as user defined
> settings?

Certainly bad, since all error checking would go away. This is one of the
main reasons why registering settings at run-time won't work. If you need
to store data, use tables.

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net

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