On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 10:58:52AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> > Cédric Villemain <cedric@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > > Maybe better to provide a contrib/ to modify config, then design what we can
> > > achieve more with an ALTER SYSTEM command.
> >
> > Hmm ... putting the UI into a contrib module would neatly solve the
> > problem for people who don't want the functionality. They just don't
> > install the module. Another thought here is that it seems like we've
> > been discussing multiple scenarios that don't necessarily all have the
> > same best solution. Maybe we should think in terms of multiple contrib
> > modules.
>
> I'd certainly be happier with that- but it already exists, to some
> extent, in the form of the pgAdmin "adminpack" contrib module. Perhaps
> we should be working on improving what we've already got there rather
> than adding something completely new..
Yes, "adminpack" has mostly read/write file I/O operations --- it would
need a higher-level API.
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