Re: postgres --help-config

Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> 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.

> The problem is how that affects Red Hat. What do they do with their
> tool?

I believe said tool is within a couple days of code freeze for initial
release, in fact. We could probably still cope with a change in the
spelling of the switches, but redesigning the output format or removing
the functionality altogether would be a very nasty surprise.

> > 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.

I'm really having a hard time responding to this line of argument
politely. Where were all these complaints when the patch was proposed
and accepted? If there's not time now to redesign the feature to your
liking, it is *NOT* Red Hat's fault, it is *YOURS*. Yanking the rug out
from under someone else's project just because you didn't review the
patch adequately at the time is not my idea of how a community should act.

regards, tom lane