Re: Server discovery

Dave Page wrote:
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Andreas Pflug [mailto:pgadmin@pse-consulting.de] 
>>Sent: 03 August 2004 13:05
>>To: Dave Page
>>Cc: pgadmin-hackers@postgresql.org
>>Subject: Re: [pgadmin-hackers] Server discovery
>>
>>That means additional/different keys?
>>If the services is rediscovered every time, how will you 
>>distinguish them from the same server entered manually?
>>
>>Autodiscovery on every startup might result in annoyingly 
>>popping up servers you already changed manually to your 
>>needs. This seems undesirable.
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> Absolutely. I already did this for LastDatabase and LastSchema, which
> instead of being stored as HKCU\Software\pgAdmin
> III\Servers\LastSchemaNN as they are for manually added servers, are
> stored as HKCU\Software\pgAdmin III\Servers\LastSchema-XXXX, where XXXX
> is the short name of the installed service. That way, as long as the
> user doesn't change the name of the service, the changed values will get
> re-attached at the next startup.
> 
> I'm toying with adding the hostname into the mix as well, just to
> prevent possible mixups wth roaming pofiles. Not sure how likely that
> scenario is, but I guess it won't hurt.

Frankly, this appears overdesigned to me.
Why not just adding discovered servers at installation time?

Regards,
Andreas