Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > FWIW, I've seen several apps that use .txt for config files, but I can't
> > > think of an example right now. Most don't though - .cfg or .conf is
> > > probably most common. Except for the majority of windows programs that
> > > don't use config files - they use the registry. But I see no reason *at
> > > all* for us to want to do that :-) It also more or less requires you to
> > > write a GUI to change the config stuff and in that case the file
> > > extension becomes irrelevant.
> >
> > Where are we on this? I think Andrew and I both think *.txt is
> > confusing. We need to decide on Monday if we should change the current
> > *.txt names. We can either leave it unchanged, remove *.txt, or change
> > it to *.config.
>
> > >>> APPDATA/postgresql/pgpass.txt
> > >>> APPDATA/postgresql/psqlrc.txt
>
> Another idea is to use *.conf.
For what it's worth, I always thought that text configuration files on
Windows platforms generally used the '.ini' extension. I believe on
most Windows systems that extension is by default associated with
Notepad.
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Kevin Brown kevin@sysexperts.com