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

From Thomas Swan
Subject Re: postgres --help-config
Date
Msg-id 3F8E4396.6010201@idigx.com
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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:

>Tom Lane wrote:
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>>Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
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>>>Agreed.  I like --dump-config.  Better to have the verb first.
>>>      
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>>My only objection to that is that "dump" suggests you will get some kind
>>of snapshot of current settings, which is not what this facility does.
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>I think people will associate dump with pg_dump, meaning "dump out the
>data".  I don't think the snapshot idea will not occur to them.  Copy
>has an in/out capability that doesn't match.
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--display-config might have the more accurate meaning you were looking for.



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