Heikki Linnakangas wrote: > Alvaro Herrera wrote: >> Greg Smith wrote: >> >>> Where Josh got hung up, where I got hung up, where Lance Campbell >>> stopped at with his Dummies tool, and what some unknown number of >>> other people have been twarted by, is that taking that knowledge and >>> turning it into a tool useful to users is surprisingly difficult. >>> The reason for that is the current postgresql.conf file and how it >>> maps internally to GUC information isn't particularly well suited to >>> automated generation, analysis, or updates. >> >> What I think this says is that we should be pushing Magnus more to >> continue work on the configuration API thing he was designing. > > There's some magic in pgAdmin to parse and write the file. You could > take a look a that.
Not really. You don't want to go there. We really need a "proper API" for it, and the stuff in pgAdmin isn't even enough to base one on. //Magnus -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
