Re: postgres --help-config

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Agreed.  I like --dump-config.  Better to have the verb first.
> 
> My only objection to that is that "dump" suggests you will get some kind
> of snapshot of current settings, which is not what this facility does.

I think people will associate dump with pg_dump, meaning "dump out the
data".  I don't think the snapshot idea will not occur to them.  Copy
has an in/out capability that doesn't match.

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