On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> wrote: > On ons, 2010-09-22 at 12:20 +0100, Dave Page wrote: >> > No, it's really not hierarchical. It only has goes one level deep. >> >> I guess pgAdmin/wxWidgets are broken then :-) >> >> [Servers] >> Count=5 >> [Servers/1] >> Server=localhost > > Well, by that logic, even what we have now for postgresql.conf is > hierarchical.
Well, yes - if you consider add-in GUCs which use prefixing like foo.setting=... > I think the criterion was rather meant to be > > - can represent hierarchies without repeating intermediate node names If this were data, I could understand that as it could lead to tremendous bloat, but as a config file, I'd rather have the readability of the ini format, despite the repeated node names, than have to hack XML files by hand. -- Dave Page Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com Twitter: @pgsnake EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise Postgres Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
