Hi, On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 12:45:08PM -0500, Robert Haas wrote: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 12:34 PM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > > > * There's a moderately sizable subset of GUCs where the underlying > > variable is not visible at all because it's static in guc.c. > > Typically this is because that variable is only used for display > > and there's an assign hook that stores the real data somewhere else. > > I suppose what we want in such cases is for the "somewhere else" > > to be PGDLLIMPORT'd, but in a lot of cases those variables are also > > static in some other module. Does this proposal include exporting > > variables that currently aren't visible to extensions at all? > > I'm a little resistant to that. I can buy making sure that Windows > > has a level playing field, but that's as far as I want to go. > > I can live with that. If someone complains about those variables being > static-to-file instead of globally visible, we can address that > complaint on its merits when it is presented.
Same here, if any third-party project had any use of such variable, they would have sent some patch for that already so I don't see any reason to change it now.
