>> Can defaults be set to the result of a function? > >By "power-on default" I mean the value that the variable is assigned as >its static initializer. That has to be a link-time constant (at least >in C ...). Anything else will mean misbehavior if an error occurs >before the GUC code itself has been able to initialize.
Hmm. Ok. >> The problem with changing the default from stderr to >eventlog is that it >> will send the messages to the eventlog even if running from >the console, >> which is not good. > >It's not perfect maybe, but it's certainly less bad than the present >behavior. At least we know that the eventlog will always exist on >Windows. I'm not sure how interesting the running-from-the-console >case actually is for Windows users anyway. It's definitly interesting when debugging :-) What do you think of the following as a fix? It should put the message in the eventlog when running as a service, but stderr when on the console. //Magnus
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