Re: pg_guc

Aizaz Ahmed <aahmed@redhat.com> writes:
> On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 11:52, Josh Berkus wrote:
>> Are you suggesting putting a copy of the list of GUCs in a system table?  I'd 
>> be for that ....

> hmmm ... I thought what this meant was that we don't factor the tables
> out into guc_vars.h, but leave them in guc.c. (adding the descriptions
> etc. there). In 'bootstrap' mode, main.c can output the values without
> ever connecting to the database ...

Right.  There is a separate proposal on the table to make more of the
guc.c tabular information visible in the pg_settings view, so that
clients of a running database can get at it.  That's independent of what
you're doing though.  See pgsql-patches a day or two back, and
discussion a little before that on (I think) pgsql-general.
        regards, tom lane