Re: postgres --help-config

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
(...)
> I guess iff someone needs raw with headers in the future, I guess we
> could add --help-config-raw-headers.
> 

I don't mind if you make it always with the headers.  We can easily 
strip the first line when reading the file and people can easily strip 
it piping the output through a filter before sorting it etc.

I am thinking that the headers would allow a output formatting utility 
to do it in a way that is independent of the version, and avoid having 
to run "pg_config --version" as well.  As the values are all strings it 
can blindly create a column for every header.  The only fields that the 
program need to know about (like name and group) are not likely to change.

No big deal though.

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