Bruce Momjian wrote:
FWIW, I've seen several apps that use .txt for config files, but I can't
think of an example right now. Most don't though - .cfg or .conf is
probably most common. Except for the majority of windows programs that
don't use config files - they use the registry. But I
Where are we on this? I think Andrew and I both think *.txt is
confusing. We need to decide on Monday if we should change the
current *.txt names. We can either leave it unchanged,
remove *.txt,
or change it to *.config.
APPDATA/postgresql/pgpass.txt
Magnus Hagander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Personally, I don't really care :-) My point was that .pgpass is bad.
pgpass or pgpass.conf or pgpass.txt are all fine by me. I agree
that .conf might be more logical than .txt.
I think the analogy to .conf is bogus. The existing files named .conf
are
Tom Lane wrote:
Magnus Hagander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Personally, I don't really care :-) My point was that .pgpass is bad.
pgpass or pgpass.conf or pgpass.txt are all fine by me. I agree
that .conf might be more logical than .txt.
I think the analogy to .conf is bogus. The existing
Bruce Momjian pgman@candle.pha.pa.us writes:
At this point, Andrew, Magnus, and I who deal with Win32 regularly all
feel *.conf is more logical than *.txt. I have not heard anyone say
*.txt is better except Tom. Is that enough of a vote?
AFAIR they both said they didn't care; you are the only
Bruce Momjian wrote:
At this point, Andrew, Magnus, and I who deal with Win32 regularly all
feel *.conf is more logical than *.txt. I have not heard anyone say
*.txt is better except Tom. Is that enough of a vote?
*ahem* :-) I though what I said was that we should leave the name alone
except
Magnus Hagander wrote:
My feeling is that the *.txt is actually misleading because
people will
think of it as a file full of freeform text (paragraphs) and not a
configuration file.
Why would they think that? If notepad tends to auto-wrap files then
this argument has some force; I'm
Bruce Momjian wrote:
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
Magnus Hagander wrote:
My feeling is that the *.txt is actually misleading because
people will
think of it as a file full of freeform text (paragraphs) and not a
configuration file.
Why would they think that? If notepad tends to auto-wrap files then
this
Magnus Hagander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Tom also wrote:
Now that I look at it, there are several places that are depending on
getenv(HOME) or getenv(USERPROFILE) (on Windows) as the meaning of
home directory. In particular ~/.pgpass is sought there, and psql
also uses get_home_path in a
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