On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 2:34 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote: > On 2020-Oct-20, Tom Lane wrote: > > and the fact that we've gone twenty-odd years without similar > > previous proposals doesn't speak well for it being really useful. > > Actually, there's at least two threads about this: > > https://postgr.es/m/flat/86d2ceg611....@jerry.enova.com > https://postgr.es/m/flat/74af1f60-34af-633e-ee8a-310d40c741a7%402ndquadrant.com
Yeah, I think this is clearly useful. ALTER SYSTEM shared_preload_libraries += direshark seems like a case with a lot of obvious practical application, and adding things to search_path seems compelling, too. FWIW, I also like the chosen syntax. I think it's more useful with lists than with numbers, but maybe it's at least somewhat useful for both. However, I do wonder if it'd be good to have a list-manipulation syntax that allows you to control where the item gets inserted -- start and end being the cases that people would want most, I suppose. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
