Re: Registry

["Dave Page" <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Pflug [mailto:pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de] 
> Sent: 11 November 2005 16:29
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: Miha Radej; pgadmin-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Registry
> 
> > Whatever killed mine off didn't delete them, it just set all the
> > settings to empty strings so I had lots of servers like: 
> (:0) as Miha
> > did :-(
> 
> 1.5 *does* delete the values, but wx will read a non-existent 
> value as 
> empty and recreate it.

Because the count value still read 12 or whatever I guess. Do we still
need the count in the new scheme? Can't we just iterate through all the
subkeys?

> 
> Any suggestions?
> We could copy them over, if newer don't exist, and leave the 
> old ones. 
> But this would leave quite some (pre-1.5) garbage.

I'm not convinced it was actually worth the change - it's not like it
was something that the user needed to hack normally, or would cause
performance issues.

Regards, Dave.