| From: | Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine(at)hi-media(dot)com> |
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| To: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Cc: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Csaba Nagy <nagy(at)ecircle-ag(dot)com>, Aidan Van Dyk <aidan(at)highrise(dot)ca> |
| Subject: | Re: Permanent settings |
| Date: | 2008-02-20 15:06:53 |
| Message-ID: | 200802201606.56058.dfontaine@hi-media.com |
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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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dim
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