Re: [Patch] pg_rewind: options to use restore_command fromrecovery.conf or command line - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Hi,

On 2018-11-07 12:58:11 +0300, Alexey Kondratov wrote:
> On 30.10.2018 06:01, Michael Paquier wrote:
> > - Reusing the GUC parser is something I would avoid as well.  Not worth
> > the complexity.
> 
> Yes, I don't like it either. I will try to make guc-file.l frontend safe.

It sounds like a seriously bad idea to use a different parser for
pg_rewind.  Why don't you just use postgres for it? As in
/path/to/postgres -D /path/to/datadir/ -C shared_buffers
?