Re: user defined settings (aka user defined guc variables)

On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Joe Conway wrote:

> I've been playing around with making it possible to create user defined guc 
> variables. This has been discussed, at least in passing, before. And it is 
> even anticipated in guc.c as a possible future feature:
> /*
>   * Build the sorted array.    This is split out so that it could be
>   * re-executed after startup (eg, we could allow loadable modules to
>   * add vars, and then we'd need to re-sort).
>   */
> 
> It is a feature that would be nice to have, so that, for example, a user 
> defined variable named "my_classpath" could be created to point to the java 
> CLASSPATH needed by a custom C function.

Hmm. Is GUC really the best place for something like that? (not that there
is any other place :-)).

Gavin