Re: Append to a GUC parameter ?

On Tue, Aug  5, 2014 at 06:36:01PM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> On 08/05/2014 06:25 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> 
> > I'm not sold on += as the syntax to use.  It just needs to be something
> > different from =. 
> 
> Alternative is to use "+" in the value string:
> 
> shared_preload_libraries = '+auto_explain'
> 
> ... not sure that's better.
> 
> The alternative is to add an "append" keyword to everything, which
> strikes me as yucky.

I think you need _prefix_ and _suffix_ operators.

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