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

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com
Cc: Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, Justin Clift <justin(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Rod Taylor <rbt(at)rbt(dot)ca>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Proposal to Re-Order Postgresql.Conf, part II
Date: 2003-06-10 19:11:36
Message-ID: 200306101911.h5AJBaO17168@candle.pha.pa.us
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One issue is that these settings don't even exist in most builds unless
you add compiler flags.

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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.
>
> --
> -Josh Berkus
> Aglio Database Solutions
> San Francisco
>
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