On 2014-08-28 14:04:27 +0200, Petr Jelinek wrote: > On 28/08/14 13:20, Andres Freund wrote: > >Hi, > > > >Stuff I wondered about: > >* How about making it --help=variables instead of --help-variables? > > -1, help is not a variable to be assigned imho
I don't think variable assignment is a good mental model for long commandline arguments. And it's not like I'm the first to come up with an extensible --help. Check e.g. gcc. But anyway, I guess I've lost that argument. Greetings, Andres Freund -- Andres Freund http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
