Tom Lane wrote: > "Joshua D. Drake" <j...@commandprompt.com> writes: > > On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 13:39 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > >> a long form only. And probably not even list it in the user > >> documentation. > > > Why wouldn't we want to list it? > > Because it's for internal use only. Although the effect we're > discussing here is relatively harmless, it seems possible that > further down the road we might find a need for hacks that would > render the output entirely unfit for ordinary dump purposes. > I don't see a need to encourage people to play with fire. > > It's hardly unprecedented for us to have undocumented internal > options --- there are some in postgres.c for example.
The important point is that we add comments in the source code about why it is undocumented. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
