Re: ALTER SYSTEM and ParseConfigFile() - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Stephen Frost
Subject Re: ALTER SYSTEM and ParseConfigFile()
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Msg-id 20150510015222.GO30322@tamriel.snowman.net
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In response to Re: ALTER SYSTEM and ParseConfigFile()  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>)
Responses Re: ALTER SYSTEM and ParseConfigFile()  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
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* Alvaro Herrera (alvherre@2ndquadrant.com) wrote:
> Stephen Frost wrote:
> > * Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> > > I think the code is OK, but yeah, this comment should be changed to
> > > reflect the idea that the function will append entries to an existing
> > > list of name/value pairs (and thus, that head_p/tail_p are not output
> > > but in/out parameters).
> >
> > I've pushed a fix for the comment to address this.
>
> This open-coded list thingy is pretty odd.  I wonder if it'd be nicer to
> replace it with ilist.  (Not for 9.5, of course.)

I have a feeling that much of the GUC machinery could be reworked; as
Jim mentioned up-thread, it might be possible to use memory contexts too
which would make a lot of it much cleaner, I believe.

Agreed that it's not for 9.5 though.
Thanks!
    Stephen

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