Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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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