Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> On sön, 2011-07-17 at 00:59 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Well, we *do* have a C API for that, of a sort. The problem is, what
>> do you do in processes that have not loaded the relevant extension?
> Those processes that have the extension loaded check the parameter
> settings in their namespace, those that don't ignore them.
Then you don't have any meaningful reporting of whether you have entered
valid values --- particularly not with the policy that only the
postmaster makes logfile entries about bad values. It'd work but I
don't think it's tremendously user-friendly.
regards, tom lane