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