Re: pg_config, pg_service.conf, postgresql.conf ....

Mark Woodward wrote:
>>After takin a swig o' Arrakan spice grog, pgsql@mohawksoft.com ("Mark
>>Woodward") belched out:

>>I'm not keen on the Windows .ini file style sectioning; that makes it
>>look like a mix between a shell script and something else.  It should
>>be one or the other.  It probably should be directly executable by
>>something...
> 
> 
> Hmm, while I agree that "ini" file is kind of ugly, it is fairly common in
> the industry, human readable, and does what it needed.
> 
> 

You could follow the UNIX style for such files e.g. /etc/hosts, 
/etc/services (and also pg_hba.conf).

cheers

Mark