Re: Proof of concept: standalone backend with full FE/BE protocol

On Thu, 2013-11-14 at 12:11 +0530, Amit Kapila wrote:
>    If an application wants to allow these connection parameters to be
> used, it would need to do PQenableStartServer() first. If it doesn't,
> those connection parameters will be rejected.

Stupid idea: Would it work that we require an environment variable to be
set before we allow the standalone_backend connection parameter?  That's
easy to do, easy to audit, and doesn't require any extra code in the
individual clients.