Actually, I think the point Peter's been making is that it's not clear we need a "user-readable" output format at all. The variant you are calling --help-config-raw is the only one that needs to be supported in 7.4, and anything else should (arguably) be left off so that it doesn't constrain a future redesign.
I agree. We can revive the pg_guc utility to obtain the raw input using 'postgres --help-config' and format it the way you want and give it all the switches that people may want.
I just wonder if having a help-like option without human-readable output
is OK. We can always document that it is for machine consumption, of course.
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