Re: Parsing config files in a directory

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> The whole config file is a joke. We'd never do it the way we do if we 
> were designing it from scratch,

Why not, pray tell?  We did design it from scratch, once upon a time,
and I don't see that the design is so obviously broken that we'd not
do the same thing if starting over.

> but we seem to be incapable of biting 
> the bullet and replacing it with something sane, which is why I have 
> ignored most of the current debate.

I guess we'll just go without the benefit of your superior intelligence
then.
        regards, tom lane