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Re: proposal: a validator for configuration files

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, Alexey Kluykin <alexk@commandprompt.com>, Florian Pflug <fgp@phlo.org>, Selena Deckelmann <selena@chesnok.com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-07-19T05:24:15Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On sön, 2011-07-17 at 00:59 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Well, we *do* have a C API for that, of a sort.  The problem is, what
> do you do in processes that have not loaded the relevant extension?

Those processes that have the extension loaded check the parameter
settings in their namespace, those that don't ignore them.