Re: postgres --help-config

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > ... Will Red Hat be upset if we
> > leave it unchanged for 7.4.X and rip this out and redo it in 7.5?
>
> It'd be better if we could get it right the first time, with the
> understanding that the output format is not very negotiable at this
> late hour. But as best I can tell, most of the unhappiness is with the
> design of the switch set, which is not something I want to defend in
> detail. There's a lot there that isn't needed for the RHDB tool as I
> understand it, and I think that altering the switches used to get the
> output that the tool does need would still be a feasible change from the
> tool's point of view.
>
> I would be in favor of simplifying the supported switch set to the
> minimum needed by Red Hat's tool (the equivalent of -G -M if I
> understood Fernando correctly), and re-adding complexity in future
> when and if it's shown to be needed. But we need to make a decision
> about this now. Preferably yesterday.

Oh, the raw output format should follow the COPY format output, meaning
literal newlines are \n and literal tabs are \<tab>, and double literal
backslash. I am mentioning this now so we will not have to modify this
output format in the future in case we need literal tab/newlines.

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