Marko Kreen <markokr@gmail.com> writes:
> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
>> 1. More understandable .pgpass format. Yes, I understand our standard
>> format, most people won't. Like JoshB said, hard to debug.
> How about allowing '#'-comments there and putting field
> list into all templates, examples and manpages?
> man 5 pgpass?
> pgpass.sample?
> IOW, do we need to change format or are we having documentation problem?
+1 for seeing this as a documentation problem. I don't think that
converting the file to .ini style is going to somehow make it
magically easier to use --- people still have to understand it,
and frankly .ini format is just another format that not everyone knows.
#-comments seem like a fine idea.
regards, tom lane
