From: | Mark Kirkwood <markir(at)paradise(dot)net(dot)nz> |
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To: | Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org> |
Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: pg_config, pg_service.conf, postgresql.conf .... |
Date: | 2006-03-01 20:21:30 |
Message-ID: | 4406024A.8010009@paradise.net.nz |
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Christopher Browne wrote:
> markir(at)paradise(dot)net(dot)nz (Mark Kirkwood) wrote:
>
>>Do you need name, value pairs? I was thinking that something like:
>>
>># Postgres Cluster Registration
>>#
>># PG_HOME PGDATA PORT
>>/usr/local/pg7.4.1 /vol01/pggeo 5435
>>/usr/local/pg7.4.1 /vol01/pgicdmdb 5434
>>/usr/local/pg7.4.1 /vol03/pg74 5432
>>
>>Clearly other fields are possible (like ALIAS for the names you were
>>using, and OPTS for extra arguments).
>>
>>This sort of layout is easily readable (more easily readable for those
>>of us used to standard UNIX config files) and simply parsable too.
>
>
> As mentioned before, the port number is redundant, and therefore
> shouldn't be there at all.
Now that's an interesting one - I would be quite keen on being able to
override postgresql.conf's port (typically do it now using PGPORT env) -
however if there is a concensus that it's a bad thing, then lets drop it.
> There needs to be a name to identify each instance, so a mandatory
> field is missing.
Yeah, agreed - my vague muttering about ALIAS was attempting to suggest
that :-).
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