Le mercredi 20 février 2008, Andrew Dunstan a écrit : > No. Seriously. We need to have reasonable manual editability preserved > for all cases. The tree of files proposal just strikes me as a basic > non-starter, and, frankly, a piece of bad design. If you need structure, > then using the file system to provider it is just a bad move.
Ok. Just wanted to have the idea exposed, nothing more. The aim was not to structure the file (that was just a bonus), but to be able to very easily edit the settings from C-code... comments included. > All this discussion seems to me to be going off into the clouds, where > every objection is met with some still more elaborate scheme. I think we > need to look at simple, incremental, and if possible backwards > compatible changes. ISTM backward compatible could mean including automatic migration code, where PostgreSQL 8.4 (e.g.) would convert old postgresql.conf to new format all by itself, with either a add-on command line tool or at first start maybe... -- dim
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