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1. INTRODUCTION 1.2. Problem Description
Listing 1.2: Eclipse configuration file excerpt
[mysqld]
#
# * Basic Settings
#
Listing 1.3: MySQL configuration file excerpt
user = mysql
pid-file = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid
socket = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
port = 3306
MySQL
The MySQL [Mic09b] configuration files (Listing 1.3) are in a format similar to the INI file
format (ahead in Section 1.3). A MySQL configuration file implements parameters formed as id
- separator - value, where the separator is the ‘=’ character; comments which are text lines starting
with the ‘#’ character; and blocks identified by an initial header and which may contain multiple
parameters and/or comments.
PostgreSQL
The PostgreSQL [Gro09b] configuration files (Listing 1.4) are an amalgam of parameters and
comments. A parameter is formed as id - separator - value, where the separator is the ‘=’ charac-
ter and the value may be a keyword or a string delimited by the apostrophe character as the
value. A comment may appear anywhere in the file and is identified by the ‘#’ character. Unlike
the previous examples, the PostgreSQL configuration files do not implement the block pattern,
although there seems to be a followed convention in which a set of parameters is preceded by a
comment, which is similar to a block.
Mantis
The Mantis PHP Bug Tracker [Gro09a] configuration file (Listing 1.5) implements parameters of
the form $ - key - separator - value, where the separator is the ‘=’ character and the value is a
keyword or a string delimited by apostrophes or quotes. It also implements comments, which
are text lines that start with the ‘#’ character.
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