Re: [RFC] Extend namespace of valid guc names

On 2013-02-25 22:27:21 +0100, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> Why?

The concrete usecase is having some form of nesting available for a
shared_library.

shared_preload_libraries = 'bdr'
bdr.connections = 'a, b'
bdr.a.dsn = '...'
bdr.a.xxx = '...'
bdr.b.dsn = '...'


> There are no multilevels structures in pg. Variables should be joined
> with schemas or extensions. Other levels are messy.

So? What does the one existing level SQL have to do with
postgresql.conf? And why is it messy?

Not that as I said before
SET foo.bar.blub = '1'; currently is already allowed.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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