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Re: Extensions and custom_variable_classes

Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr>

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From: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr>
To: Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@gmail.com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, PostgreSQL-Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-12-19T18:39:23Z
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Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@gmail.com> writes:
> +1 to split the custom_variable_classes issue. It's a longstanding
> TODO item, but EXTENSION is still very useful without the fix.
>
> It's my guess that ExtensionSetCVC() can initialize modules one-by-one
> and be called on demand, for example, at SHOW, searching pg_settings,
> or assignment to variables with unknown classes.

Just so that we're on the same line here, if we are to remove
custom_variable_classes then we don't keep any GUC related code into the
extension patch, right?  So that ExtensionSetCVC() and friends disappear
entirely.

Regards,
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Dimitri Fontaine
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