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Re: Extensions and custom_variable_classes (was: Extensions, patch v20 (bitrot fixes))

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr>, Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-12-19T17:55:38Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> I agree with Robert that that is an utterly horrid, broken concept.

That's a little stronger than what I said, though the same general idea.

> Just to point out one concrete problem: the postmaster reads
> postgresql.conf too, so it would have to do this as well in order to
> parse postgresql.conf correctly.

This is an even more serious problem than what I was pointing out.

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Robert Haas
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