> Mark Woodward wrote:
>>>After takin a swig o' Arrakan spice grog, pgsql@mohawksoft.com ("Mark
>>>Woodward") belched out:
>
>>>I'm not keen on the Windows .ini file style sectioning; that makes it
>>>look like a mix between a shell script and something else. It should
>>>be one or the other. It probably should be directly executable by
>>>something...
>>
>>
>> Hmm, while I agree that "ini" file is kind of ugly, it is fairly common
>> in
>> the industry, human readable, and does what it needed.
>>
>>
>
> You could follow the UNIX style for such files e.g. /etc/hosts,
> /etc/services (and also pg_hba.conf).
The /etc/hosts file does not allow a hierarchical representation of a
group that contains zero or more name/value pairs.