Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by developer.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0CF42E004B for ; Thu, 5 Jun 2008 21:28:55 -0300 (ADT) Received: from developer.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 50672-01-3 for ; Thu, 5 Jun 2008 21:28:37 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from lists.commandprompt.com (host-159.commandprompt.net [207.173.203.159]) by developer.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A2BB2E0048 for ; Thu, 5 Jun 2008 21:24:40 -0300 (ADT) Received: from perhan.alvh.no-ip.org (190-95-19-91.bk17-dsl.surnet.cl [190.95.19.91]) (authenticated bits=0) by lists.commandprompt.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m560PuDe026837 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 5 Jun 2008 17:25:59 -0700 Received: by perhan.alvh.no-ip.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 33CFE47C69; Thu, 5 Jun 2008 20:24:52 -0400 (CLT) Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 20:24:52 -0400 From: Alvaro Herrera To: "David E. Wheeler" Cc: Greg Smith , Aidan Van Dyk , pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Overhauling GUCS Message-ID: <20080606002452.GY16502@alvh.no-ip.org> References: <20080605162400.GF16502@alvh.no-ip.org> <48481CBF.6040602@enterprisedb.com> <48481E3A.4010306@hagander.net> <20080605174209.GL16502@alvh.no-ip.org> <20080605212129.GI14498@yugib.highrise.ca> <3F927D52-A0FD-4575-8D24-F0F70C459235@kineticode.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F927D52-A0FD-4575-8D24-F0F70C459235@kineticode.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0 (lists.commandprompt.com [207.173.203.159]); Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:26:00 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200806/265 X-Sequence-Number: 119378 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. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support