| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Fernando Nasser <fnasser(at)redhat(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, 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: | 2003-10-14 21:46:28 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.44.0310142344230.22628-100000@peter.localdomain |
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Bruce Momjian writes:
> Let me be clear on this --- your tools is not part of the PostgreSQL
> community. We are not required to allow any of this functionality
> unless the community decides they want it. The major argument for
> keeping it, in my mind, is to be helpful to Red Hat.
>
> My current idea is to keep --help-config as readable output, add
> --help-config-raw as machine-readable output, document those, and remove
> all the additional flags.
I'm beginning to think that we should scrap it and start with a real
design for 7.5. I know that's radical, but I don't think we're going to
arrive at anything that anyone's going to like by the time we want to
release.
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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net
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