Re: RFC: programmable file format for postgresql.conf - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On 06/12/2013 22:59, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 12/6/13, 12:29 PM, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa wrote:
>>      What I've been trying to do is summarize what has already been
>> discussed here and propose a solution. You say that "you can already do
>> those thisngs", but that's not what I have read here. Greg Smith (cc'ed
>> as I'm quoting you) was explaining this in [1]:
>>
>> "Right now, writing such a tool in a generic way gets so bogged down
>> just in parsing/manipulating the postgresql.conf file that it's hard to
>> focus on actually doing the tuning part."
> That was in 2008.  I don't think that stance is accurate anymore.
    Just for me to learn about this: why is it not accurate anymore?
    Thanks for your patience! :)
    aht