Re: list append syntax for postgresql.conf - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: list append syntax for postgresql.conf
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Msg-id 15641.1550680957@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to list append syntax for postgresql.conf  (Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>)
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Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> Nowadays there are a number of methods for composing multiple
> postgresql.conf files for modularity.  But if you have a bunch of things
> you want to load via shared_preload_libraries, you have to put them all
> in one setting.  How about some kind of syntax for appending something
> to a list, like
>     shared_preload_libraries += 'pg_stat_statements'

Seems potentially useful, but you'd need to figure out how to represent
this in the pg_settings and pg_file_settings views, which currently
suppose that any given GUC's value is determined by exactly one place in
the config file(s).

            regards, tom lane


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