Re: Overhauling GUCS

Greg Smith wrote:

> Where Josh got hung up, where I got hung up, where Lance Campbell stopped 
> at with his Dummies tool, and what some unknown number of other people  
> have been twarted by, is that taking that knowledge and turning it into a 
> tool useful to users is surprisingly difficult.  The reason for that is  
> the current postgresql.conf file and how it maps internally to GUC  
> information isn't particularly well suited to automated generation,  
> analysis, or updates.

What I think this says is that we should be pushing Magnus more to
continue work on the configuration API thing he was designing.

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