Re: Generating config stuff from single source

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...
>
> ----
> Group: Query Tuning
> Subgroup: Planner Method Configuration
>
> Name: enable_hashagg
> Context: userset
>
> ... etc ...
> ----

I'm trying out this input format now, processing it with Perl, and it 
seems to be quite reasonable.  There are a number of special cases, 
however, that need to be worked out.

I'm trying to generate guc.c now and once that works I'll report here.

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Peter Eisentraut
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