Re: Syslog Facility Patch

* Larry Rosenman <ler(at)lerctr(dot)org> [001114 16:56]:
> Ok, so what I think(?) needs to happen is the FIXME: tag needs to be
> handled. We need to code a version of src/backend/parser/scansup.c
> that doesn't use palloc, and also strips the apostrophes from the
> front and end of the string? This doesn't look that hard. Do I have
> "permission" to play with it, and submit a patch when I've got it
> fixed?
>
> I ass/u/me we want to allow any of the 'C' escapes? or just
> a-zA-Z0-9-. for a GUC_STRING?
Ok, baring objections, I'm going to code up a routine to put into
guc-file.l that removes the quotes/apostrophes from a GUC_STRING, and
matches for [-.a-zA-Z0-9] within the string. We can tune more later.

Probably won't get posted tonight, but in the next 48 hours.

Larry
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