Re: postgres --help-config - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: postgres --help-config
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Msg-id 200310152050.h9FKokZ15094@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: postgres --help-config  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> At this point, we should probably just do what is needed, and revisit
> for 7.5 --- straight COPY output would probably do the trick.
> 
> Now, for a name.  I wonder if --config-copy would be OK.  It documents
> it is in COPY output format, and it allows us to add a human-readable
> version in the future if we ever want one.  I didn't like --help-config
> because it is too easily confused with --help, which documents
> command-line flags --- this really doesn't do that.

I am now thinking maybe --config-dump would be the proper option name
--- it is really a dump of the config stuff.

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