> On Dec 12, 2015, at 9:40 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> Mark Dilger <hornschnorter@gmail.com> writes:
>>> On Dec 12, 2015, at 3:42 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> ... In general, though, I'd rather not try to
>>> teach InteractiveBackend() such a large amount about SQL syntax.
>
>> I use CREATE RULE within startup files in the fork that I maintain. I have
>> lots of them, totaling perhaps 50k lines of rule code. I don't think any of that
>> code would have a problem with the double-newline separation you propose,
>> which seems a more elegant solution to me.
>
> Yeah? Just for proof-of-concept, could you run your startup files with
> the postgres.c patch as proposed, and see whether you get any failures?
Given all the changes I've made to initdb.c in my fork, that patch
of yours doesn't apply.
mark
