Re: Permanent settings

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...
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