On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 9:42 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: >>> Oh, you're complaining about SetConfigOption, not the assign hooks. > >> I was actually complaining about the latter, and then switched gears >> to the former. I'm an equal-opportunity complainer today, I guess... > > It does strike me that we could provide SetConfigOptionInt, > SetConfigOptionBool, and SetConfigOptionReal for the benefit of callers > who'd prefer to pass values in those formats. They'd still do sprintf > internally, but this would make the call sites a bit cleaner.
Why do we need to double the conversion in the first place? -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers