Dear PostgreSQL Developers, I'm currently working on a GiST extension (a new index structure) for PostgreSQL and I want to make it as customizable as I can. To achieve my goal I'm trying to take advantage of the options GiST support function to provide extra parameters to the operator class.
Because I'm creating a new index structure, I've also developed new operators where I want to access the value of the operator class parameters as well. My main problem is that I can't do that, because the parameters are only accessible from the registered GiST support functions through specific macros. To solve the problem, I've tried to use global variables but it was very inconsistent because of the complex memory management of the whole system (also, I'm not as great in C programming as I want to be). Could you please help, by telling me that iss there any way to store and access values globally in PostgreSQL? I want to store these values in a way that is not affected by restarting the database server or maybe the whole computer. I would really appreciate your help. Thanks in advance! Best regards, Zsolt
