Re: Configuring synchronous replication

From: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Configuring synchronous replication
Date: 2010-09-22 11:57:16
Message-ID: AANLkTi=rJuRLv2jv=M5js9YPGLp94bciAWx0FtRei=YD@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)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.

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