Re: proposal: function pg_setting_value_split() to parse shared_preload_libraries etc.

On Mon, 30 Nov 2020 at 03:24, Anastasia Lubennikova
<a(dot)lubennikova(at)postgrespro(dot)ru> wrote:
>
> On 23.10.2020 05:06, Ian Lawrence Barwick wrote:
> > Having just submitted this, I realised I'm focussing on the GUCs which call
> > "SplitDirectoriesString()" (as my specific uses case is for
> > "shared_preload_libraries")
> > but the patch does not consider the other GUC_LIST_INPUT settings, which
> > call "SplitIdentifierString()", so as is, it might produce unexpected
> > results for those.
> >
> > I'll rethink and submit an updated version.
>
> Status update for a commitfest entry.
>
> This entry was "Waiting on author" during this CF. As I see, the patch
> needs more work before review, so I changed it to "Withdrawn".
> Feel free to resubmit an updated version to a future commitfest.

FWIW I was looking for this functionality just the other day, for
parsing synchronous_standby_names . So I'd definitely welcome it.