Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > I think it is hard to argue that such a  user-visible flag is
> > reasonable, even if it helps backend developers avoid some keystrokes.
> 
> > I think flags used only by backend developers should be things that can
> > _only_ be done with flags.
> 
> Huh?  By that argument, we should remove every single postmaster command
> line switch except "-c var=value", because all the other ones are
> shorthands for that --- Peter went to some lengths awhile ago to make
> that true.

I was talking about developer-use-only flags.

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