Re: Proposal: pg_confcheck - syntactic & semantic validation of postgresql configuration files

Amir Rohan wrote:
> On 10/14/2015 12:14 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > Amir Rohan wrote:
> > 
> >> I've been considering that. Reusing the parser would ensure no errors
> >> are introduces by having a different implementation, but on the other
> >> hand involving the pg build in installation what's intended as a
> >> lightweight, independent tool would hurt.
> >> Because it's dubious whether this will end up in core, I'd like
> >> "pip install pg_confcheck" to be all that is required.
> > 
> > Maybe just compile a single file in a separate FRONTEND environment?
> 
> You mean refactoring the postgres like rhass means? could you elaborate?
> 
> I believe most people get pg as provided by their distro or PaaS,
> and not by compiling it.

I mean the utility would be built by using a file from the backend
source, just like pg_xlogdump does.  We have several such cases.
I don't think this is impossible to do outside core, either.

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