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

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: postgres --help-config
Date
Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.44.0310142344230.22628-100000@peter.localdomain
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In response to Re: postgres --help-config  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Responses Re: postgres --help-config
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Bruce Momjian writes:

> Let me be clear on this --- your tools is not part of the PostgreSQL
> community.  We are not required to allow any of this functionality
> unless the community decides they want it.  The major argument for
> keeping it, in my mind, is to be helpful to Red Hat.
>
> My current idea is to keep --help-config as readable output, add
> --help-config-raw as machine-readable output, document those, and remove
> all the additional flags.

I'm beginning to think that we should scrap it and start with a real
design for 7.5.  I know that's radical, but I don't think we're going to
arrive at anything that anyone's going to like by the time we want to
release.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net



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