I have no problems with the patch ...
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Bruce Momjian wrote:
Kevin Brown wrote:
Bruce Momjian wrote:
FWIW, I've seen several apps that use .txt for config files, but I can't
think of an example right now. Most don't though - .cfg or .conf is
probably most common. Except for the majority of windows programs that
don't use config files - they use the registry. But I see no reason *at
all* for us to want to do that :-) It also more or less requires you to
write a GUI to change the config stuff and in that case the file
extension becomes irrelevant.
Where are we on this? I think Andrew and I both think *.txt is
confusing. We need to decide on Monday if we should change the current
*.txt names. We can either leave it unchanged, remove *.txt, or change
it to *.config.
APPDATA/postgresql/pgpass.txt
APPDATA/postgresql/psqlrc.txt
Another idea is to use *.conf.
For what it's worth, I always thought that text configuration files on
Windows platforms generally used the '.ini' extension. I believe on
most Windows systems that extension is by default associated with
Notepad.
The problem with *.ini is that it suggests we follow the INI file format
for those files, which we don't.
Given the recent votes I have made the following patch which changes the
*.txt extensions to *.conf. It is consistent with our other config
files on the server side. This change is for Win32 only. I will apply
for 8.0 soon.
One additional issue is that we currently specify the client directory
as %APPDATA%\postgresql\, but in my "Application Data" directory most of
my directories are upper/lower case, suggesting that we should use
%APPDATA%\PostgreSQL\. Win32 is case-insensitve but case-preserving so
they directory could be created with any case but it seems we should
suggest directory capitalization more consistent with Win32.
Comments?
We are at the point where we are really just polishing Win32 and these
issues are all cosmetic.
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