Re: Converting postgresql.conf parameters to kilobytes

From: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, shridhar(at)frodo(dot)hserus(dot)net
Subject: Re: Converting postgresql.conf parameters to kilobytes
Date: 2004-06-01 23:49:54
Message-ID: 40BD1622.3010804@samurai.com
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Tom Lane wrote:
> ISTM we had decided that putting vast amounts of documentation into the
> file comments was exactly the thing *not* to do. It duplicates the SGML
> documentation, thereby doubling the maintenance effort, to very little
> purpose.

I agree. If people really think that adding more comments to
pg_hba.conf is a good idea, I think the best way to do that is to
automatically extract that information from the main SGML docs.

-Neil

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