Hi,
On 2019-08-03 08:22:29 +0900, Ian Barwick wrote:
> What I came up with shoehorned a stripped-down version of the backend
> config parser into fe_utils and provides a function to modify pg.auto.conf
> in much the same way ALTER SYSTEM does, but with only the basic syntax
> checking provided by the parser of course. And for completeness a
> client utility which can be called by scripts etc.
> I can clean it up and submit it later for reference (got distracted by other things
> recently) though I don't think it's a particularly good solution due to the
> lack of actual checks for the provided GUCSs (and the implementation
> is ugly anyway); something like what Andres suggests below would be far better.
I think my main problem with that is that it duplicates a nontrivial
amount of code.
Greetings,
Andres Freund