Re: SQL command to edit postgresql.conf, with comments

From: "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>
To: "Darren Duncan" <darren(at)darrenduncan(dot)net>, "PostgreSQL-development" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: SQL command to edit postgresql.conf, with comments
Date: 2010-10-12 21:51:06
Message-ID: 4CB491FA02000025000368BB@gw.wicourts.gov
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Darren Duncan <darren(at)darrenduncan(dot)net> wrote:

> why is it not possible to retain the single existing postgres.conf
> file format (human writable) *and* have it machine/SQL-editable
> *and* maintain the comments?

My recollection of the previous discussion wasn't that there was no
way to do it, but rather that each person could thing of a somewhat
different way to do it and no two people agreed on which was best,
so no consensus was reached.

-Kevin

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