| From: | Fernando Nasser <fnasser(at)redhat(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, 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: | 2003-10-15 14:54:29 |
| Message-ID: | 3F8D5FA5.101@redhat.com |
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Tom Lane wrote:
>
> Actually, I think the point Peter's been making is that it's not clear
> we need a "user-readable" output format at all. The variant you are
> calling --help-config-raw is the only one that needs to be supported in
> 7.4, and anything else should (arguably) be left off so that it doesn't
> constrain a future redesign.
>
I agree. We can revive the pg_guc utility to obtain the raw input using
'postgres --help-config' and format it the way you want and give it all
the switches that people may want.
I just wonder if having a help-like option without human-readable output
is OK. We can always document that it is for machine consumption, of
course.
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Fernando Nasser
Red Hat Canada Ltd. E-Mail: fnasser(at)redhat(dot)com
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Toronto, Ontario M4P 2C9
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