Re: [Patch] pg_rewind: options to use restore_command fromrecovery.conf or command line

On 2018-Oct-22, Alexey Kondratov wrote:

> > I didn't actually try patch yet, but the idea seems interesting. Will
> > you add it to the commitfest?
> I am willing to add it to the November commitfest, but I have some concerns
> regarding frontend version of GUC parser. Probably, it is possible to
> refactor guc-file.l to use it on both front- and backend. However, it
> requires usage of IFDEF and mocking up ereport for frontend, which is a bit
> ugly.

Hmm, I remember we had a project to have a new postmaster option that
would report the value of some GUC option, so instead of parsing the
file in the frontend, you'd invoke the backend to do the parsing.  But I
don't know what became of that ... I don't see it in the postmaster
--help output.

Of course, recovery.conf options are not GUCs either ... that's another
pending patch.

We do have some backend-mock for frontends, e.g. in pg_waldump; plus
palloc is already implemented in libpgcommon.  I don't know if what you
need to compile the lexer is a project much bigger than finishing the
other two patches I mention.

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