Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes: > 2. The choice of .INI format for the config file seems a bit > non-simpatico for Postgres. We have nothing else that uses that,
The pg_service.conf format is pretty .INI-like, it even calls itself that in the docs: Either service file uses an “INI file” format where the section name is the service name and the parameters are connection parameters; - https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/libpq-pgservice.html > which for starters means you'd have to write your own parser. > Something that might integrate better is JSON; we already have > code for that, and use-cases such as backup manifest files. JSON isn't very human-friendly for writing, it's more of a data interchange format that happens to be human-readable. > regards, tom lane - ilmari
