| From: | Thomas Swan <tswan(at)idigx(dot)com> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, 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: | 2003-10-16 07:07:02 |
| Message-ID: | 3F8E4396.6010201@idigx.com |
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
>Tom Lane wrote:
>
>
>>Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
>>
>>
>>>Agreed. I like --dump-config. Better to have the verb first.
>>>
>>>
>>My only objection to that is that "dump" suggests you will get some kind
>>of snapshot of current settings, which is not what this facility does.
>>
>>
>
>I think people will associate dump with pg_dump, meaning "dump out the
>data". I don't think the snapshot idea will not occur to them. Copy
>has an in/out capability that doesn't match.
>
>
>
--display-config might have the more accurate meaning you were looking for.
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