That means you can now set your options in either or all of $PGDATA/configuration,
some postmaster option (--enable-fsync=off), or set a SET command. The list of
options is in backend/utils/misc/guc.c, documentation will be written post haste.
pg_options is gone, so is that pq_geqo config file. Also removed were backend -K,
-Q, and -T options (no longer applicable, although -d0 does the same as -Q).
Added to configure an --enable-syslog option.
changed all callers from TPRINTF to elog(DEBUG)
> tprintf.patch
>
> tprintf.patch
>
> adds functions and macros which implement a conditional trace package
> with the ability to change flags and numeric options of running
> backends at runtime.
> Options/flags can be specified in the command line and/or read from
> the file pg_options in the data directory.
Subject: [PATCHES] 970417: two more patches for large objects
Here are two more patches:
1. pg_getint doesn't properly set the status flag when
calling pqGetShort or pqGetLong. This is required when
accessing large objects via libpq. This, combined with
problem 1 above causes postgres to crash when postgres
tries to print out the message that the status was not
good.
2. ExceptionalCondition crashes when called with detail =
NULL. This patch prevents dereferencing the NULL.