From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> |
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To: | Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie> |
Cc: | David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Should we put command options in alphabetical order in the doc? |
Date: | 2023-04-19 08:47:47 |
Message-ID: | 20230419084747.suskrykkzm2ity5e@alvherre.pgsql |
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On 2023-Apr-18, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> While I'm certain that nobody will agree with me on every little
> detail, I have to imagine that most would find my preferred ordering
> quite understandable and unsurprising, at a high level -- this is not
> a hopelessly idiosyncratic ranking, that could just as easily have
> been generated by a PRNG. People may not easily agree that "apples are
> more important than oranges, or vice-versa", but what does it matter?
> I've really only put each option into buckets of items with *roughly*
> the same importance. All of the details beyond that don't matter to
> me, at all.
I agree with you that roughly bucketing items is a good approach.
Within each bucket we can then sort alphabetically.
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Álvaro Herrera Breisgau, Deutschland — https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/
"If you have nothing to say, maybe you need just the right tool to help you
not say it." (New York Times, about Microsoft PowerPoint)
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