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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: David E. Wheeler <david@kineticode.com>
Cc: Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.com>
Cc: Aidan Van Dyk <aidan@highrise.ca>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Overhauling GUCS
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 20:24:52 -0400
Message-ID: <20080606002452.GY16502@alvh.no-ip.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F927D52-A0FD-4575-8D24-F0F70C459235@kineticode.com>
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David E. Wheeler wrote:

> How about a simple rule, such as that machine-generated comments start  
> with "##", while user comments start with just "#"? I think that I've  
> seen such a rule used before. At any rate, I think that, unless you have 
> some sort of line marker for machine-generated comments, there will be no 
> way to tell them apart from user comments.

FWIW smb.conf uses ; for one purpose and # for the other.

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Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support

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