Re: Testing the async-commit patch

Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
>   
>> Simon Riggs wrote:
>>     
>>> Sounds fine, though I'd prefer this in XML to allow further
>>> extensibility in the future.
>>>       
>
>   
>> YAML?
>>     
>
> That would seem to require making pg_regress depend on some XML library
> or other, which is a dependency I'd rather not add.
>
>     
>   

Yeah, I think the way I set it out would work just fine for the intended 
purpose. XML, YAML, JSON et al are all well suited to tree structured 
data. But what we're describing here isn't tree structured. It is simply 
some named sets of postgresql.conf directives. As such, it would be best 
if it were as close as possible to actual postgresql.conf syntax.

And I am also reluctant to add an additional dependency onto the 
buildfarm script. (I wasn't actually thinking of doing this throught 
pg_regress, but I'm open to persuasion).

cheers

andrew