Re: Converting postgresql.conf parameters to kilobytes - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Neil Conway
Subject Re: Converting postgresql.conf parameters to kilobytes
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Msg-id 40BD1622.3010804@samurai.com
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In response to Re: Converting postgresql.conf parameters to kilobytes  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> ISTM we had decided that putting vast amounts of documentation into the
> file comments was exactly the thing *not* to do.  It duplicates the SGML
> documentation, thereby doubling the maintenance effort, to very little
> purpose.

I agree. If people really think that adding more comments to 
pg_hba.conf is a good idea, I think the best way to do that is to 
automatically extract that information from the main SGML docs.

-Neil



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