Alvaro Herrera writes: > Oh, there's another thing about the --help-config option. This option > includes an, er, option to display the items that belong to a given > group. So you could say > > /tmp/pgsql-es/bin/postgres --help-config -g 'Security' > > and the list of parameters that belong to a group that has the word > Security on it would be displayed. > > However, the -l option lists the groups with the translated names, and > of course those names do not match on -g specification.
I'm quite unhappy about the --help-config option. It was developed without discussion, it was installed hastily, we don't have any information about that interactive configuration application it's supposed to target, it's not documented, it's full of unfinished business, it certainly doesn't make the code easier to maintain because all the documenation is duplicated, but not one-to-one. At this point, I wouldn't spend a lot of time trying to make sense of it. We can revisit it again in the next release and investigate how we can eliminate the duplication of effort between the documentation and the code. > This little patch allows both versions to match, translated and > untranslated. That doesn't make much sense to me. It might be that a translated word is equal to an English word but has a different meaning. It's also weird that you cannot search for a complete word, e.g. "syslog", it's going to print out all the parameters that contain "syslog". Again, I don't think we should worry about that now or we'll end up spending too much time on this. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
