Re: Parsing config files in a directory

From: Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine(at)hi-media(dot)com>
To: jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Thom Brown <thombrown(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>, 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 17:13:57
Message-ID: 87skd2gm22.fsf@hi-media-techno.com
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"Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> In regards to parsing files in a directory. It makes sense. Why the
> implementation is so difficult is beyond me. Can't we just look at
> Apache and say, "Gee, it may not be perfect but it does everything we
> need, let's use their implementation."?

Reading files in a directory does not seem too hard, IIUC Magnus already
implemented it. What's hard is to convince anyone it helps solving the
tool editing problem (call it SET GLOBAL if you want).

Regards,
--
dim

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