Re: Configuring synchronous replication

On 09/22/2010 08:32 AM, Dave Page wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Andrew Dunstan<andrew@dunslane.net>  wrote:
>> XML is not the only alternative - please don't use it as a straw man. For
>> example, here is a fragment from the Bacula docs using their hierarchical
>> format:
>>
>> FileSet {
>>    Name = Test
>>    Include {
>>      File = /home/xxx/test
>>      Options {
>>         regex = ".*\.c$"
>>      }
>>    }
>> }
>>
>> Or here is a piece from the buildfarm client config (which is in fact perl,
>> but could also be JSON or similar fairly easily):
>>
>> mail_events =>
>> {
>>      all =>  [],
>>      fail =>  [],
>>      change =>  ['foo@bar.com', 'baz@blurfl.org' ],
>>      green =>  [],
>> },
>> build_env =>
>> {
>>      CCACHE_DIR =>  "/home/andrew/pgfarmbuild/ccache/$branch",
>> },
> Both of which I've also used in the past, and also find uncomfortable
> and awkward for configuration files.
>
>

I can't imagine trying to configure Bacula using ini file format - the 
mind just boggles. Frankly, I'd rather stick with our current config 
format than change to something as inadequate as ini file format.

cheers

andrew