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Re: Paths for C functions (was Re: Re: backend dies on 7.1.1 loading large datamodel.)

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 Hentosh <hentosh@io.com>, <pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-05-10T18:32:54Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs, pgsql-hackers 
Tom Lane writes:

> For obvious security reasons, the library path must only be settable by
> the dbadmin, and I see no good reason that it should be changeable
> on-the-fly.  But we could treat it as a postmaster-start-only GUC
> parameter...

On the fly could be useful for trying alternative sets of modules.  Also,
you could include such a SET command into your function loading script.

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