Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
> 2. The choice of .INI format for the config file seems a bit
> non-simpatico for Postgres. We have nothing else that uses that,
The pg_service.conf format is pretty .INI-like, it even calls itself
that in the docs:
Either service file uses an “INI file” format where the section name
is the service name and the parameters are connection parameters;
- https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/libpq-pgservice.html
> which for starters means you'd have to write your own parser.
> Something that might integrate better is JSON; we already have
> code for that, and use-cases such as backup manifest files.
JSON isn't very human-friendly for writing, it's more of a data
interchange format that happens to be human-readable.
> regards, tom lane
- ilmari
