Neil Conway wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: > > ISTM we had decided that putting vast amounts of documentation into the > > file comments was exactly the thing *not* to do. It duplicates the SGML > > documentation, thereby doubling the maintenance effort, to very little > > purpose. > > I agree. If people really think that adding more comments to > pg_hba.conf is a good idea, I think the best way to do that is to > automatically extract that information from the main SGML docs.
And if folks want more info in postgresql.conf, we can perhaps pull them from the docs too, or at least the descriptions we added. Also, I it seems postgres --describe-config isn't working. It outputs nothing here. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
