Jan,

> No, not documenting it IS a good move.

I couldn't disagree more.  Undocumented options?  Who are we, Microsoft?   

>  If there's a button people will 
> press it, if there's a switch people will turn it on and if there's a 
> slot people will stick in whatever they have ... believe it or not, I 
> have found a Xmas cookie in the floppy drive of a consultant's notebook 
<snip>

These kinds of people don't read the documentation in the first place, so 
we're in no danger from them.

I can definitely see an argument that the "developer" switches should be 
documented on a different page of the docs from "Run-Time Configuration".  
But the idea of having GUCs that aren't documented at all, anywhere, is a 
very anti-Open Source idea.

-- 
-Josh Berkus
 Aglio Database Solutions
 San Francisco


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