Re: Making config file parser available to add-ins

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> Marc Munro wrote:
>> I want Veil (http://pgfoundry.org/projects/veil/) to be able to read
>> configuration details from a configuration file.

> What kind of details?  By the time any server-side module is loaded, the 
> configuration file has already been read, so why would you need to read 
> it again?

Probably the correct question is whether Marc's problem isn't already
solved by the "custom GUC variable" mechanism --- that is, whatever he
wants to configure should be defined as "custom" GUCs within the
existing configuration file.
        regards, tom lane