Re: postgres --help-config

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Fernando Nasser <fnasser(at)redhat(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, 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 20:50:46
Message-ID: 200310152050.h9FKokZ15094@candle.pha.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> At this point, we should probably just do what is needed, and revisit
> for 7.5 --- straight COPY output would probably do the trick.
>
> Now, for a name. I wonder if --config-copy would be OK. It documents
> it is in COPY output format, and it allows us to add a human-readable
> version in the future if we ever want one. I didn't like --help-config
> because it is too easily confused with --help, which documents
> command-line flags --- this really doesn't do that.

I am now thinking maybe --config-dump would be the proper option name
--- it is really a dump of the config stuff.

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