Re: more i18n/l10n issues

Tom Lane wrote:

>
>The point was to allow a GUI utility to be built that would help in
>editing postgresql.conf.  It couldn't assume the postmaster is already
>running, so just extending the pg_config view wouldn't answer, and
>duplicating knowledge of all the GUC variables in a separate tool
>would have created maintenance headaches.  I would like to think that
>the patch would eventually allow us to generate postgresql.conf.sample
>automatically from the guc.c tables, and thereby reduce the number of
>files to maintain, but that didn't get done yet.  The reason for having
>both "long" and "short" descriptions of the variables was that I foresaw
>the "short" versions as becoming the per-line comments in
>postgresql.conf.  The "long" descriptions were what the GUI tool wants.
>
>  
>
I have been wondering if moving to XML for config files might be a good 
idea - and if there are going to be GUIs that write them that gives some 
more impetus to the idea.

This occurred to me as I was writing the token replacement stuff for 
initdb.c, and I realised how fragile it was - a misplaced space and you 
are hosed.

Or would it be overkill?

cheers

andrew