<p dir="ltr"><br /> On 12 Dec 2013 04:20, "Álvaro Hernández Tortosa" <<a
href="mailto:aht@nosys.es">aht@nosys.es</a>>wrote:<p dir="ltr">> Thanks, Greg. I've been going through
thosethreads, they are quite interesting. I didn't find an answer, though, about my question: why parsing the
postgresql.conf(and for instance preserving the comments while writing it back) is no longer a problem<p
dir="ltr">Parsingit isn't hard. It's precisely because the file isn't programmable and is such a simple format that's
easyto parse.<p dir="ltr">It's making changes and then writing it out again while preserving the intended format that's
hard.<pdir="ltr">So we convinced people to stop trying to do that.<p dir="ltr">The whole idea of include rules is to
separatethe portion of the file that's human edited and the portion that's machine maintained. That's the only viable
strategy.