Re: Should we put command options in alphabetical order in the doc? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Should we put command options in alphabetical order in the doc?
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Msg-id 20230419084747.suskrykkzm2ity5e@alvherre.pgsql
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In response to Re: Should we put command options in alphabetical order in the doc?  (Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>)
Responses Re: Should we put command options in alphabetical order in the doc?
Re: Should we put command options in alphabetical order in the doc?
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On 2023-Apr-18, Peter Geoghegan wrote:

> While I'm certain that nobody will agree with me on every little
> detail, I have to imagine that most would find my preferred ordering
> quite understandable and unsurprising, at a high level -- this is not
> a hopelessly idiosyncratic ranking, that could just as easily have
> been generated by a PRNG. People may not easily agree that "apples are
> more important than oranges, or vice-versa", but what does it matter?
> I've really only put each option into buckets of items with *roughly*
> the same importance. All of the details beyond that don't matter to
> me, at all.

I agree with you that roughly bucketing items is a good approach.
Within each bucket we can then sort alphabetically.

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