Greg Smith escribió: > >I was thinking that the algorithm would be something like: "Read > >the old postgresql.conf and write it back out to a new file line > >by line.... > > This sounds familiar...oh, that's right, this is almost the same > algorithm pgtune uses. And it sucks, and it's a pain to covert the > tool into C because of it, and the fact that you have to write this > sort of boring code before you can do a single line of productive > work is one reason why we don't have more tools available; way too > much painful grunt work to write.
Huh, isn't this code in initdb.c already? Since it's BSD-licensed (or is it MIT?) you could just have lifted it. Surely this isn't the reason the tool isn't written in C. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
