It would be nice if the entire binary config file could be replaced with a nice text file version.

e.g.
# Configuration File for db1
WorkLocation=/fs1/Ingres/Work
DataLocation=/fs1/Ingres/Data/Default/db1
LastTableName=aaacccdbd
LastJournal=00055
Checkpoint1=24-Sept-2004 10:23:23
Checkpoint2=25-Sept-2004 10:33:23
etc.

Then a utility similar to "ingsetenv" could be used to edit it (so that the Ingres DBMS can be kept up to date with the latest changes).

e.g. ingsetcfg db1 "LastJournal=00056"

Anyone fancy hacking the source code? :-)

Or I suppose another idea would be to replace it with extra tables within iidbdb and get rid of configuration files altogether.


-----Original Message-----
From: info-ingres-bounces@ams.org [mailto:info-ingres-bounces@ams.org] On Behalf Of Laframboise André
Sent: 26 October 2004 15:02
To: 'info-ingres@ams.org '
Subject: [Info-Ingres] Another Ingres config file question



Hi Guys,

I wrote a small program to modify the Ingres config file in order to implement a poor man's version of a replicator.

Pretty straight foward. One thing I do is modify all directory path names with a new one of the same lenght. That's because each string in the file is prefixed with a string lenght value.

It works OK but I would like to make the program more dynamic. I currently have to re-code/re-compile if the source database changes. i.e. gets a new data/work location, etc.

Now that Ingres is open source, does that mean the structure of the config file is available ?

Just wonderin'...

Andre

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