| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, 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 22:41:22 |
| Message-ID: | 200310152241.h9FMfMX28967@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > Actually I think -M -G corresponds to that set of choices. Are we
> > converging on an agreement that we only need that functionality for now?
> > If so, what switch shall be used to get it?
>
> I'm thinking that a completely different option name like --dump-config or
> --copy-config-info is better than something that implies "help". I would
> actually like --help-config to work exactly like --help, so it displays
> something like
>
> Options:
> ...
> --sort-mem=INT amount of memory to be used by internal sort
> operations and hash tables before switching to
> temporary disk files
> --...
Agreed. I like --dump-config. Better to have the verb first.
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