Re: Support for N synchronous standby servers - take 2

On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 4:16 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
>> On 07/17/2015 04:36 PM, Jim Nasby wrote:
>>> I'm guessing it'd be really ugly/hard to support at least this GUC being
>>> multi-line?
>
>> Mind you, multi-line GUCs would be useful otherwise, but we don't want
>> to hinge this feature on making that work.
>
> I'm pretty sure that changing the GUC parser to allow quoted strings to
> continue across lines would be trivial.  The problem with it is not that
> it's hard, it's that omitting a closing quote mark would then result in
> the entire file being syntactically broken, with the error message(s)
> almost certainly pointing somewhere else than where the actual mistake is.
> Do we really want such a global reduction in friendliness to make this
> feature easier?

Maybe shoehorning this into the GUC mechanism is the wrong thing, and
what we really need is a new config file for this.  The information
we're proposing to store seems complex enough to justify that.

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