----- Original Message ----- From: "Gavin Sherry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Joe Conway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Joe Conway wrote: > > > I've been playing around with making it possible to create user defined guc > > variables. This has been discussed, at least in passing, before. And it is > > even anticipated in guc.c as a possible future feature: > > /* > > * Build the sorted array. This is split out so that it could be > > * re-executed after startup (eg, we could allow loadable modules to > > * add vars, and then we'd need to re-sort). > > */ > > > > It is a feature that would be nice to have, so that, for example, a user > > defined variable named "my_classpath" could be created to point to the java > > CLASSPATH needed by a custom C function. > > Hmm. Is GUC really the best place for something like that? (not that there > is any other place :-)). > > Gavin Maybe GUC should be stored in a Berkeley DB? ;-) Mike Mascari [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
