Re: [HACKERS] Generating config stuff from single source

2006-02-20 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: The input file could be simply line based. Attached is a simple script that takes the input below and produces something resembling what you suggested. It wouldn't be too hard to get it to produce multiple output formats and dump the output to different files...

Re: [HACKERS] Generating config stuff from single source

2006-02-19 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 10:52:19AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Am Donnerstag, 16. Februar 2006 02:50 schrieb Tom Lane: That's fine for users, but what new demands are you about to place on developers? Does this require tools not already needed in order

Re: [HACKERS] Generating config stuff from single source

2006-02-16 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Am Donnerstag, 16. Februar 2006 02:50 schrieb Tom Lane: That's fine for users, but what new demands are you about to place on developers? Does this require tools not already needed in order to build from a CVS pull? (There's sure no xsltproc on this machine...) It is to be expected that

Re: [HACKERS] Generating config stuff from single source

2006-02-16 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 02:36:01AM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote: We are currently maintaining information about configuration parameters in at least three places: the documentation, guc.c, and postgresql.conf.sample. I would like to generate these from a single source. Computationally,

Re: [HACKERS] Generating config stuff from single source

2006-02-16 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Am Donnerstag, 16. Februar 2006 02:50 schrieb Tom Lane: That's fine for users, but what new demands are you about to place on developers? Does this require tools not already needed in order to build from a CVS pull? (There's sure no xsltproc on this

Re: [HACKERS] Generating config stuff from single source

2006-02-16 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Am Donnerstag, 16. Februar 2006 02:50 schrieb Tom Lane: The m4 idea seems attractive to me because that's already effectively required as part of the autoconf infrastructure (and I think bison uses it too these days). That is true, but I'm afraid

[HACKERS] Generating config stuff from single source

2006-02-15 Thread Peter Eisentraut
We are currently maintaining information about configuration parameters in at least three places: the documentation, guc.c, and postgresql.conf.sample. I would like to generate these from a single source. Computationally, this is not very challenging, it's just a bit of work. I imagine as