Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 07:30 -0700, Selena Deckelmann wrote:
>> A thing that could be added, however, is reporting of all invalid (as
>> opposed to valid, but requires a restart to apply) parameters before
>> exiting. This change requires refactoring ProcessConfigFile() more
>> significantly, as the parsing and validity checks are done separately,
>> and are exited with gotos. :)
>>
>> I haven't tried to change this yet, but was planning to.
>
> Can't we just do a reload, but with doit = false?
That would also be cool. Like an 'apachectl configtest'.
There are five places where a 'goto' is used in guc-file.l needs to be
changed to make this work (in addition to adding an option to pg_ctl).
It should be pretty straightforward, and I'll have a look at it tonight.
-selena
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Selena Deckelmann
End Point Corporation
