Thom Brown wrote:
> On 22 September 2010 17:23, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote:
> > Robert Haas wrote:
> >> [server]
> >> guc=value
> >>
> >> or
> >>
> >> server.guc=value
> > ?^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> > Yes, this was my idea too. ?It uses our existing config file format.
> >
> 
> So...
> 
> sync_rep_services = {critical: recv=2, fsync=2, replay=1;
>                      important: fsync=3;
>                      reporting: recv=2, apply=1}
> 
> becomes ...
> 
> sync_rep_services.critical.recv = 2
> sync_rep_services.critical.fsync = 2
> sync_rep_services.critical.replay = 2
> sync_rep_services.important.fsync = 3
> sync_rep_services.reporting.recv = 2
> sync_rep_services.reporting.apply = 1
> 
> I actually started to give this example to demonstrate how cumbersome
> it would look... but now that I've just typed it out, I've changed my
> mind.  I actually like it!

It can be prone to mistyping, but it seems simple enough.  We already
through a nice error for mistypes in the sever logs.  :-)

I don't think we support 3rd level specifications, but we could.  Looks
very Java-ish.

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