Re: Allow custom parameters with more than one dot in config files.

Alexander Kukushkin <cyberdemn(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> At the moment the only requirement for custom parameter names is that they
> should have one or more dots.
> ...
> But, Postgres fails to start if such parameters are set in the
> configuration file with the following error:

Hmm.

> In my opinion it would be fair to make parsing of config files with the
> rest of the code responsible for GUC handling by allowing custom parameters
> containing more than one dot.

I wonder if we wouldn't be better advised to require exactly one dot.
This isn't a feature that we really encourage users to use, and the
further we move the goalposts for it, the harder it will be to replace
it. In particular I doubt the long-stalled session-variables patch
could support such names, since it needs the names to conform to
normal SQL rules.

regards, tom lane