On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 10:28 PM, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 9:14 PM, Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: >> I'm actually inclined not to, and keep this as a undocumented debugging >> option. Limiting the use of this option to people willing to read the >> code seems like a good idea to me. > > -1. I use the documentation to find things, even though I am a > developer, and I don't think hiding things from users is a good idea > anyway. We can say that we recommend against using the option and > that it's just for testing, but it should be documented anyway.
You would be disappointed with the current state of things then. fe-connect.c lists a couple of debug options: - authtype, which is not used anywhere, still kept to not reject connection strings using it. I can get that this is not documented. - tty, same argument as authtype. - replication, which is still available, and that I have for example used a couple of times for debugging the replication parser (psql can work directly with some replication commands as you know). But this is not documented. FWIW, I would like to see things properly documented as well. And please note that I am fine to write such a patch as well. -- Michael -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
