Re: .ini support for .pgpass

Marko Kreen <markokr@gmail.com> writes:
> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
>> 1. More understandable .pgpass format. Yes, I understand our standard
>> format, most people won't. Like JoshB said, hard to debug.

> How about allowing '#'-comments there and putting field
> list into all templates, examples and manpages?

> man 5 pgpass?

> pgpass.sample?

> IOW, do we need to change format or are we having documentation problem?

+1 for seeing this as a documentation problem.  I don't think that
converting the file to .ini style is going to somehow make it
magically easier to use --- people still have to understand it,
and frankly .ini format is just another format that not everyone knows.

#-comments seem like a fine idea.
        regards, tom lane