Re: postgres --help-config

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Fernando Nasser <fnasser(at)redhat(dot)com>, Dave Page <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>, Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: postgres --help-config
Date: 2003-10-15 15:51:26
Message-ID: 15995.1066233086@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Are you talking about the descriptions in the guc.c file that are part
> of the GUC structures? I think we are heading in a direction where we
> should be pulling descriptions out of SGML like we do with psql help,
> and using that to load the GUC structures with descriptions.

Peter had suggested generating the docs and the GUC table from a common
source file, and I think that is the way to go, but it's obviously not
getting done for 7.4.

regards, tom lane

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