| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(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 19:36:43 |
| Message-ID: | 200310151936.h9FJah208416@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > I understand we want to get something that _isn't_ going to change after
> > 7.4. That's why I proposed a simple --help-config in user-readable
> > format (might be improved in the future), and a --help-config-raw in tab
> > format, without headers.
>
> Actually, I think the point Peter's been making is that it's not clear
> we need a "user-readable" output format at all. The variant you are
> calling --help-config-raw is the only one that needs to be supported in
> 7.4, and anything else should (arguably) be left off so that it doesn't
> constrain a future redesign.
Agreed. No one is asking for user-readable output, and if we output in
COPY format, we can just publish the schema and they can load it into
their favorate database.
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