Re: Documentation of server configuration

On Saturday 13 November 2004 15:20, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> I've just spent a day working through the current set of server
> configuration parameters, and I think that the documentation at
> <http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/runtime-config.html> has
> reached its peak of unusability. I haven't been able to find a single
> parameter all day except by using a text search over the file.
>
> A couple of obvious faults:
>
> - There are too many sections.
>
> - The sections don't have any obvious order.
>
> - The subsections don't have any obvious order.
>
> - The lists of individual parameters inside the sections don't have any
> order.
>
> - If a parameter has a list of possible values, the values are not
> listed in a consistent order.
>
> I have made an attempt and reformatted the whole section into one big
> alphabetical list, and while that has obvious drawbacks, I feel that
> it's already much more usable than what we have now.
>
> Other ideas?

I thought runtime-config was supposed to be ordered in the same order as the
default postgresql.conf ?

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Robert Treat
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