Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Steve Crawford wrote: >> Raymond O'Donnell wrote: >>> On 18/10/2007 22:26, Laurent ROCHE wrote: >>> >>>> No idea what GUC is, though ! >>> Grand Unified Contraption? ;-) >>> >>> Ray (who's just been reading Jules Verne). >> It's Global User Configuration. But the confusion does point out the >> need for a reference. > > I think it is Grand Unified Configuration actually ... what does Verne > use? I don't know the reference. > I knew someone would correct any errors. I searched high and low and stopped when I saw the first reasonable sounding explanation: http://www.varlena.com/GeneralBits/Tidbits/annotated_conf_e.html Searching Google'"Global User Configuration" postgresql guc' yields 700 results. Altering that to "Grand Unified Configuration" yields 1,570. Confusion apparently abounds. Cheers, Steve ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend