Re: LSN as a recovery target

On 8/22/16 8:28 AM, Michael Paquier wrote:
> Thinking a bit wider than that, we may want to know such context for
> normal GUC parameters as well, and that's not the case now. Perhaps
> there is actually a reason why that's not done for GUCs, but it seems
> that it would be useful there as well.

GUC parsing generally needs, or used to need, to work under more
constrained circumstances, e.g., no full memory management.  That's not
a reason not to try this, but there might be non-obvious problems.

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