Re: [PATCHES] GUC variables invisible to contrib/ modules

Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.devel.win32,gmane.comp.db.postgresql.devel.patches
Message-ID <[email protected]>
"Mark Cave-Ayland" <[email protected]> writes:
> So I guess I was looking more for clarification that this was the
> "official" way to access GUC information?

It isn't, and isn't likely to become so, at least not for C code.
We generally think of the C code as being at a lower level than SQL.
If we rename a global variable that underlies a GUC variable, it's
probably because we *want* to break any C code that references it
--- perhaps the semantics are changing, or something like that.

			regards, tom lane

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