Re: [PATCH] Stop ALTER SYSTEM from making bad assumptions

On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 12:25:22PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> That'd be the kind of thing that I was really hoping we could provide a
> common library for.

Indeed.  There could be many use cases for that.  Most of the parsing
logic is in guc-file.l.  There is little dependency to elog() and
there is some handling for backend-side fd and their cleanup, but that
looks doable to me without too many ifdef FRONTEND.
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Michael