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

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Ian Barwick <ian(dot)barwick(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Stop ALTER SYSTEM from making bad assumptions
Date: 2019-08-22 03:13:32
Message-ID: 20190822031332.GE1683@paquier.xyz
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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.
--
Michael

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