Re: [HACKERS] Advice regarding configuration parameters

2004-06-06 Thread Joe Conway
Thomas Hallgren wrote: Some very good suggestions where made here. What happens next? Will this end up in a TODO list where someone can "claim the task" (I'm trying to learn how the process works) ? If someone doesn't jump right on it and make a "diff -c" proposal, it probably belongs on the TODO

Re: [HACKERS] Advice regarding configuration parameters

2004-06-05 Thread Thomas Hallgren
Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Peter Eisentraut" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 04:39 Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Advice regarding configuration parameters > Thomas Hallgren wrote: > > No, this was not related to trigger

Re: [HACKERS] Advice regarding configuration parameters

2004-06-05 Thread Thomas Hallgren
PROTECTED]> To: "Joe Conway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Peter Eisentraut" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Thomas Hallgren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 19:15 Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Advice regarding configuration para

Re: [HACKERS] Advice regarding configuration parameters

2004-05-11 Thread Thomas Hallgren
Tom Lane wrote: The sort of semantic funny I am thinking of is like this: * postgresql.conf contains pljava::var = somegoodvalue * ALTER DATABASE SET supplies pljava::var = somebadvalue For builtin variables the ALTER DATABASE value would be rejected on sight and the end result would be that the va

Re: [HACKERS] Advice regarding configuration parameters

2004-05-09 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Peter Eisentraut wrote: >> I have been thinking for some time about a generic mechanism to >> configure procedural languages. It could be a text array in >> pg_language that you could fill at will. > One big question is whether the per-language variable

Re: [HACKERS] Advice regarding configuration parameters

2004-04-28 Thread Thomas Hallgren
Patch posted on the patches list :-) Let me know what you think. - thomas "Joe Conway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Thomas Hallgren wrote: > > Some very good suggestions where made here. What happens next? Will this end > > up in a TODO list where someone can "cl

Re: [HACKERS] Advice regarding configuration parameters

2004-02-20 Thread Bruce Momjian
uot; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 04:39 > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Advice regarding configuration parameters > > > > Thomas Hallgren wrote: > > > No, this was not related to triggers at all. The original discussion

Re: [HACKERS] Advice regarding configuration parameters

2004-02-20 Thread Thomas Hallgren
Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Peter Eisentraut" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 04:39 Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Advice regarding configuration parameters > Thomas Hallgren wrote: > > No, this was not related to trigger

Re: [HACKERS] Advice regarding configuration parameters

2004-02-19 Thread Bruce Momjian
Thomas Hallgren wrote: > No, this was not related to triggers at all. The original discussion > concerned GUC functionality to handle configuration settings for pl > extensions. OK. If you guys agree on TODO wording, I will add it. -- Bruce Momjian| http://candle.pha.

Re: [HACKERS] Advice regarding configuration parameters

2004-02-19 Thread Thomas Hallgren
t; Cc: "Thomas Hallgren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Peter Eisentraut" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 21:00 Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Advice regarding configuration parameters

Re: [HACKERS] Advice regarding configuration parameters

2004-02-19 Thread Bruce Momjian
Joe Conway wrote: > Thomas Hallgren wrote: > > Some very good suggestions where made here. What happens next? Will this end > > up in a TODO list where someone can "claim the task" (I'm trying to learn > > how the process works) ? > > If someone doesn't jump right on it and make a "diff -c" propos

Re: [HACKERS] Advice regarding configuration parameters

2004-02-19 Thread Joe Conway
Thomas Hallgren wrote: Some very good suggestions where made here. What happens next? Will this end up in a TODO list where someone can "claim the task" (I'm trying to learn how the process works) ? If someone doesn't jump right on it and make a "diff -c" proposal, it probably belongs on the TODO

Re: [HACKERS] Advice regarding configuration parameters

2004-02-10 Thread James William Pye
On 02/06/04:05/5, Tom Lane wrote: > To: Joe Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Thomas Hallgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Advice regarding configuration parameters > D

Re: [HACKERS] Advice regarding configuration parameters

2004-02-09 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Tom Lane wrote: > Given all the work Peter put into GUC (for very good reasons), I was > a tad astonished to read him proposing to develop a non-GUC mechanism > for configuring PLs. I for one was a tad astonished to read that there is already support for adding variables at run-time, given that w

Re: [HACKERS] Advice regarding configuration parameters

2004-02-07 Thread Bruce Momjian
Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Am Freitag, 6. Februar 2004 10:27 schrieb Thomas Hallgren: > > I would like some configuration parameters to Pl/Java and I would like some > > advice. Where should they go? > > > > 1. Something similar to postgresql.conf (it's not extendable though, is > > it?) > > No, it

Re: [HACKERS] Advice regarding configuration parameters

2004-02-06 Thread Tom Lane
Joe Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I like it. I wonder if we ought to have a way to "register" valid > classes? Maybe a new guc variable in the form of a list of valid > classes. So something like: There are some order-of-processing issues there, but maybe. Another possibility is that after

Re: [HACKERS] Advice regarding configuration parameters

2004-02-06 Thread Joe Conway
Tom Lane wrote: What do you think of the idea of suppressing the "unknown variable" error for some class of variable names? I like it. I wonder if we ought to have a way to "register" valid classes? Maybe a new guc variable in the form of a list of valid classes. So something like: custom_variable

Re: [HACKERS] Advice regarding configuration parameters

2004-02-06 Thread Joe Conway
Tom Lane wrote: Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Am Freitag, 6. Februar 2004 10:27 schrieb Thomas Hallgren: 1. Something similar to postgresql.conf (it's not extendable though, is it?) No, it is not. In principle it could be --- the mechanisms already exist in guc.c to permit outside a

Re: [HACKERS] Advice regarding configuration parameters

2004-02-06 Thread Tom Lane
Joe Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I still think it is a good idea and that > the difficulties can be worked out. What do you think of the idea of suppressing the "unknown variable" error for some class of variable names? If we had agreement on doing that then I think the rest would be pre

Re: [HACKERS] Advice regarding configuration parameters

2004-02-06 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Am Freitag, 6. Februar 2004 10:27 schrieb Thomas Hallgren: >> I would like some configuration parameters to Pl/Java and I would like some >> advice. Where should they go? >> >> 1. Something similar to postgresql.conf (it's not extendable though, is >>

Re: [HACKERS] Advice regarding configuration parameters

2004-02-06 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Am Freitag, 6. Februar 2004 10:27 schrieb Thomas Hallgren: > I would like some configuration parameters to Pl/Java and I would like some > advice. Where should they go? > > 1. Something similar to postgresql.conf (it's not extendable though, is > it?) No, it is not. > 2. A Table in the database i

[HACKERS] Advice regarding configuration parameters

2004-02-06 Thread Thomas Hallgren
I would like some configuration parameters to Pl/Java and I would like some advice. Where should they go? 1. Something similar to postgresql.conf (it's not extendable though, is it?) 2. A Table in the database in the "sqlj" schema 3. Java properties file (cumbersome, must be available prior to sta