<br /><br /> On 09/22/2010 07:57 AM, Dave Page wrote: <blockquote
cite="mid:AANLkTi=rJuRLv2jv=M5js9YPGLp94bciAWx0FtRei=YD@mail.gmail.com"type="cite"><pre wrap="">On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at
12:50PM, Peter Eisentraut <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:peter_e@gmx.net"><peter_e@gmx.net></a>
wrote:
</pre><blockquote type="cite"><pre wrap="">On ons, 2010-09-22 at 12:20 +0100, Dave Page wrote:
</pre><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><pre wrap="">No, it's really not hierarchical. It only has goes
onelevel deep.
</pre></blockquote><pre wrap="">
I guess pgAdmin/wxWidgets are broken then :-)
[Servers]
Count=5
[Servers/1]
Server=localhost
</pre></blockquote><pre wrap="">
Well, by that logic, even what we have now for postgresql.conf is
hierarchical.
</pre></blockquote><pre wrap="">
Well, yes - if you consider add-in GUCs which use prefixing like foo.setting=...
</pre><blockquote type="cite"><pre wrap="">I think the criterion was rather meant to be
- can represent hierarchies without repeating intermediate node names
</pre></blockquote><pre wrap="">
If this were data, I could understand that as it could lead to
tremendous bloat, but as a config file, I'd rather have the
readability of the ini format, despite the repeated node names, than
have to hack XML files by hand.
</pre></blockquote><br /> XML is not the only alternative - please don't use it as a straw man. For example, here is a
fragmentfrom the Bacula docs using their hierarchical format:<br /><br /><blockquote><pre>FileSet { Name = Test Include
{ File = /home/xxx/test Options { regex = ".*\.c$" } }
}
</pre></blockquote> Or here is a piece from the buildfarm client config (which is in fact perl, but could also be JSON
orsimilar fairly easily):<br /><br /><blockquote>mail_events =><br /> {<br /> all => [], <br /> fail
=>[],<br /> change => ['<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:foo@bar.com">foo@bar.com</a>', '<a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"href="mailto:baz@blurfl.org">baz@blurfl.org</a>' ],<br /> green => [], <br />
},<br/> build_env =><br /> {<br /> CCACHE_DIR => "/home/andrew/pgfarmbuild/ccache/$branch", <br /> },<br
/><br/></blockquote><pre>
</pre> cheers<br /><br /> andrew<br /><pre>
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