| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | 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 01:13:51 |
| Message-ID: | 200310160113.h9G1DpU12315@candle.pha.pa.us |
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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.
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