Re: Custom gucs visibility

On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 9:32 AM, Nikhil Sontakke <nikkhils@gmail.com> wrote:
> So, if I have a contrib module which adds in a custom guc via
> DefineCustomIntVariable() for example. Now that custom guc is not visible
> via a show command unless that corresponding .so has been loaded into
> memory.
>
> E.g.
>
> postgres=# show pg_buffercache.fancy_custom_guc;
> ERROR:  unrecognized configuration parameter
> "pg_buffercache.fancy_custom_guc"
>
> Should we do something about this or we are ok with the current behavior? I
> would prefer to get to see the config parameter value if I so happen to want
> to see it before the load of that contrib module. Thoughts?

If we haven't loaded the .so yet, where would we get the list of
custom GUCs from?

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