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Peter Eisentraut - PostgreSQL wrote:

CVSROOT: /cvsroot
Module name: pgsql-server
Changes by: petere@svr1.postgresql.org 03/10/18 19:59:09

Modified files:
src/backend/main: main.c
src/backend/tcop: postgres.c
src/backend/utils/misc: guc.c help_config.c
src/include/utils: help_config.h

Log message:
Cleanup on --help-config: Now called --describe-config, no further options,
machine readable, without headers, not sorted. Parameter descriptions
adjusted to fit first sentence + rest convention.

Don't we need to document this? I don't see any SGML commits above.

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Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:

Peter Eisentraut - PostgreSQL wrote:

Cleanup on --help-config: Now called --describe-config, no further options,
machine readable, without headers, not sorted.

Don't we need to document this? I don't see any SGML commits above.

It wasn't documented before. But perhaps it should be now.

regards, tom lane

Tom Lane wrote:

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:

Peter Eisentraut - PostgreSQL wrote:

Cleanup on --help-config: Now called --describe-config, no further options,
machine readable, without headers, not sorted.

Don't we need to document this? I don't see any SGML commits above.

It wasn't documented before. But perhaps it should be now.

I assume it wasn't documented before because no one wanted to stand
behind that API --- I assume now that we will and it will not change in
future releases.

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