On Dec 4, 2009, at 10:36 AM, Tom Lane wrote:

>> Are multiline GUCs allowed in the postgresql.conf file?
> 
> I don't think so.  In any case this seems like an extreme abuse of the
> concept of a GUC, as well as being a solution in search of a problem,
> as well as being something that should absolutely not ever happen inside
> the postmaster process for both reliability and security reasons.
> I vote a big no on this.

That's fine. It's relatively simple for an admin to create a Perl module that 
does everything she wants, call it PGInit or something, and then just make the 
GUC:

    plperl.on_perl_init = 'use PGInit;'

Best,

David
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