On Wednesday, February 20, 2019, Peter Eisentraut < peter.eisentr...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> Nowadays there are a number of methods for composing multiple > postgresql.conf files for modularity. But if you have a bunch of things > you want to load via shared_preload_libraries, you have to put them all > in one setting. How about some kind of syntax for appending something > to a list, like > > shared_preload_libraries += 'pg_stat_statements' > I would rather just have the behavior for that variable “append mode”, period. Maybe do it generally for all multi-value variables. It would be like “add only” permissions - if you don’t want something loaded it cannot be specified ever, overwrite is not allowed. Get rid of any order-of-operations concerns. David J.
