Le jeudi 15 novembre 2012 18:53:15, Peter Eisentraut a écrit :
> Independent of the discussion of how to edit configuration files from
> SQL, I had another idea how many of the use cases for this could be
> handled.
>
> We already have the ability to store in pg_db_role_setting configuration
> settings for
>
> specific user, specific database
> specific user, any database
> any user, specific database
>
> The existing infrastructure would also support
>
> any user, any database (= all the time)
>
> All you'd need is to add
>
> ApplySetting(InvalidOid, InvalidOid, relsetting, PGC_S_$SOMETHING);
>
> in postinit.c, and have some SQL command to modify this setting.
>
> The only thing you couldn't handle that way are SIGHUP settings, but the
> often-cited use cases work_mem, logging, etc. would work.
>
> There would also be the advantage that pg_dumpall would save these
> settings.
>
> Thoughts?
I like the idea.
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