Re: Admin functions contrib

[Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>]

Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Basically I think we are converging on an answer that we can't do any of
> this for 7.5. 

If it's not going into the distribution as contrib or core, I'll package 
that as additional admin pack. I'm quite sure I can convince the win32 
installer packager guys to include that as default-on option as soon as 
I'm able to prove them how it's working.

> The scope has gone way beyond what we had at feature
> freeze, and we can't even get it to work on Win32, 

??? The functions will work for win32, are you talking about logging?
The win32 log issue isn't a serverlog rotation issue, as I stated also 
the current stderr output is affected! I'd clearly see that as a fix, 
whilst it might be more than 10 lines of code. I'll try to fix that 
tomorrow. The very log_destination=file and rotation code will be more 
or less the same as for ***x.

> I have added this to the TODO list:
>
> 	* Allow server logs to be read using SQL commands
> 	* Allow server configuration parameters to be modified remotetly

This is desirable in any case. But until 7.6 will be around, 1-1.5 years 
and ???,000 installations will happen. Since the functionality is 
available now or will be available VSN (certainly before 7.5 release), 
there's no good reason suppress it.

Regards,
Andreas