Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Steve Crawford wrote:
>> Raymond O'Donnell wrote:
>>>> On 18/10/2007 22:26, Laurent ROCHE wrote:
>>>> No idea what GUC is, though !
>>
>> It's Global User Configuration. But the confusion does point out the
>> need for a reference.
> I think it is Grand Unified Configuration actually ...
Alvaro remembers correctly. Peter invented the term when he proposed
replacing a bunch of ad-hoc configuration thingies with one mechanism:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2000-03/msg00107.php
If you don't remember how things worked before that, be glad ;-)
regards, tom lane