From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Josh Kupershmidt <schmiddy(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-docs <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: explaining "context" column of pg_settings |
Date: | 2010-12-17 01:04:17 |
Message-ID: | 1292547747-sup-786@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of jue dic 16 21:11:49 -0300 2010:
> Josh Kupershmidt <schmiddy(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>
> > I've put together a patch to help document these values based on the
> > comments in guc.h, the explanations in [2], and my own understanding.
> > My crude explanations could probably use some further wordsmithing and
> > check for accuracy :-)
>
> I did some work on this patch and attach an updated version. I'm not
> however convinced that it's a good idea to bury this material in
> catalogs.sgml --- I think few people ever read that chapter. Shouldn't
> we put this into config.sgml instead, somewhere in section 18.1?
Perhaps we can replace the current "this setting requires a restart"
boilerplate with "this setting has context foo" in setting descriptions,
and have a pointer to wherever the description of each context is.
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Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
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