| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
|---|---|
| To: | Thom Brown <thombrown(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Parsing config files in a directory |
| Date: | 2009-10-29 15:17:34 |
| Message-ID: | 1256829454.10954.16.camel@jd-desktop.unknown.charter.com |
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On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 12:31 +0000, Thom Brown wrote:
> 2009/10/29 Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>:
> > Why not allow something like += or .= instead of the = to denote appending
> > to a list?
> >
> > custom_variable_classes += 'x'
> >
> > seems a whole lot nicer to me.
> >
>
> I would see that as making the config more programatic so while that
> might not look too weird to a developer, it could be confusing for a
> DBA or system administrator. I don't think that's how config files
> should work, and it also adds gotchas like the following.
>
The DBAs I know would think we were absolutely off our rocker for such a
thing. At least it would make great humor at presentations.
Joshua D. Drake
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