Greg Smith escribió:
> >I was thinking that the algorithm would be something like: "Read
> >the old postgresql.conf and write it back out to a new file line
> >by line....
>
> This sounds familiar...oh, that's right, this is almost the same
> algorithm pgtune uses. And it sucks, and it's a pain to covert the
> tool into C because of it, and the fact that you have to write this
> sort of boring code before you can do a single line of productive
> work is one reason why we don't have more tools available; way too
> much painful grunt work to write.
Huh, isn't this code in initdb.c already? Since it's BSD-licensed (or
is it MIT?) you could just have lifted it. Surely this isn't the reason
the tool isn't written in C.
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