Re: postgres --help-config

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > Actually I think -M -G corresponds to that set of choices.  Are we
> > converging on an agreement that we only need that functionality for now?
> > If so, what switch shall be used to get it?
> 
> I'm thinking that a completely different option name like --dump-config or
> --copy-config-info is better than something that implies "help".  I would
> actually like --help-config to work exactly like --help, so it displays
> something like
> 
> Options:
> ...
>   --sort-mem=INT    amount of memory to be used by internal sort
>                     operations and hash tables before switching to
>                     temporary disk files
>   --...

Agreed.  I like --dump-config.  Better to have the verb first.

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