Re: RESET command seems pretty disjointed now

Tom Lane wrote:
> The current documentation for RESET exhibits a certain lack of, um,
> intellectual cohesiveness:
>
> Name
>
> RESET -- restore the value of a run-time parameter to the default value
>
> Synopsis
>
> RESET configuration_parameter
> RESET ALL
> RESET { PLANS | SESSION | TEMP | TEMPORARY }
>
>
> That one-line summary has got approximately zip to do with the newly
> added options; as does most of the Description section. At the very
> least this manual page needs an extensive rewrite. But I wonder whether
> the real problem isn't that we chose a bad name for the new commands.
> Is there another keyword we could use instead of RESET? A concrete
> objection to the current state of affairs is that absolutely anyone,
> looking at this set of options with no prior knowledge of PG, would
> expect that RESET ALL subsumes all the other cases.

Maybe DISCARD for the plans etc might be more intuitive than extending
RESET?

Mark