Re: Set arbitrary GUC options during initdb

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> The idea is that instead of:

> replace_token(conflines, "#max_connections = 100", repltok);

> You'd write something like:

> replace_guc_value(conflines, "max_connections", repltok);

> Which would look for a line matching /^#max_connections\s+=\s/, and
> then identify everything following that point up to the first #. It
> would replace all that stuff with repltok, but if the replacement is
> shorter than the original, it would pad with spaces to get back to the
> original length. And otherwise it would add a single space, so that if
> you set a super long GUC value there's still at least one space
> between the end of the value and the comment that follows.

Well, yeah, I was trying to avoid writing that ;-).  There's even
one more wrinkle: we might already have removed the initial '#',
if one does say "-c max_connections=N", because this logic won't
know whether the -c switch matches one of initdb's predetermined
substitutions.

> There might be some quoting-related problems with this idea, not sure.

'#' in a value might confuse it, but we could probably take the last '#'
not the first.

Anyway, it seems like I gotta work harder.  I'll produce a
new patch.

            regards, tom lane