Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> I think that's the right direction. I wonder though if we shouldn't go a
> bit further. Have one guc that determines the "query id provider" (NULL
> or a shared library), and one GUC that configures whether query-id is
> computed (never, on-demand/auto, always). For the provider GUC load the
> .so and look up a function with some well known name.
That's sounding like a pretty sane design, actually. Not sure about
the shared-library-name-with-fixed-function-name detail, but certainly
it seems to be useful to separate "I need a query-id" from the details
of the ID calculation.
Rather than a GUC per se for the ID provider, maybe we could have a
function hook that defaults to pointing at the in-core computation,
and then a module wanting to override that just gets into the hook.
regards, tom lane