Re: RFC: programmable file format for postgresql.conf

On 12/6/13, 12:29 PM, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa wrote:
>     What I've been trying to do is summarize what has already been
> discussed here and propose a solution. You say that "you can already do
> those thisngs", but that's not what I have read here. Greg Smith (cc'ed
> as I'm quoting you) was explaining this in [1]:
> 
> "Right now, writing such a tool in a generic way gets so bogged down
> just in parsing/manipulating the postgresql.conf file that it's hard to
> focus on actually doing the tuning part."

That was in 2008.  I don't think that stance is accurate anymore.