Re: Proposal to Re-Order Postgresql.Conf, part II

Okay, separate documentation might work ;-)

Jan

Josh Berkus wrote:
> Jan,
>
>> No, not documenting it IS a good move.
>
> I couldn't disagree more. Undocumented options? Who are we, Microsoft?
>
>> If there's a button people will
>> press it, if there's a switch people will turn it on and if there's a
>> slot people will stick in whatever they have ... believe it or not, I
>> have found a Xmas cookie in the floppy drive of a consultant's notebook
> <snip>
>
> These kinds of people don't read the documentation in the first place, so
> we're in no danger from them.
>
> I can definitely see an argument that the "developer" switches should be
> documented on a different page of the docs from "Run-Time Configuration".
> But the idea of having GUCs that aren't documented at all, anywhere, is a
> very anti-Open Source idea.
>

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