Re: small proposal: pg_config record flag variables?

Tom Lane wrote:

>I wrote:
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>>Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
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>>>I would be tempted to have one flag called, say, --build-env which has
>>>all the interesting settings from the build environment in one hit.
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>>The one-flag way would be human readable but not program friendly.
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>OTOH there's nothing saying we can't do both.
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>Actually, I now remember having also wished for a "pg_config --all"
>switch that would dump out everything the program knows. The existing
>UI makes you ask pretty-please for each tidbit, and that gets old fast.
>Would --all serve what you had in mind, or do you specifically want
>--build-env?
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--all would be fine. In fact, why not make it the default? This has
always struck me as a bit lame:

[andrew(at)alphonso inst]$ bin/pg_config
pg_config: argument required

Try "pg_config --help" for more information
[andrew(at)alphonso inst]$

cheers

andrew