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

[Mark Kirkwood <markir(at)paradise(dot)net(dot)nz>]

Mark Woodward wrote:
> > After takin a swig o' Arrakan spice grog, pgsql(at)mohawksoft(dot)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