Re: Permanent settings

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 06:14:27PM -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:42:02 -0500
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
> 
> > All this discussion seems to me to be going off into the clouds,
> > where every objection is met with some still more elaborate scheme. I
> > think we need to look at simple, incremental, and if possible
> > backwards compatible changes.
> 
> The simplest solution I can think of is:
> 
> Have a table pg_configuration (pg_settings?).
> 
> Allow that table to be inserted into but not updated or deleted from.

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This pretty much kills the ability for people who *want* to edit things
from the config file only, right? I don't think that's acceptable. At least
not if it's at all avoidable, which I think it is.
//Magnus