Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Greg Smith wrote:
>
>> Where Josh got hung up, where I got hung up, where Lance Campbell stopped
>> at with his Dummies tool, and what some unknown number of other people
>> have been twarted by, is that taking that knowledge and turning it into a
>> tool useful to users is surprisingly difficult. The reason for that is
>> the current postgresql.conf file and how it maps internally to GUC
>> information isn't particularly well suited to automated generation,
>> analysis, or updates.
>
> What I think this says is that we should be pushing Magnus more to
> continue work on the configuration API thing he was designing.
There's some magic in pgAdmin to parse and write the file. You could
take a look a that.
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