Fernando Nasser wrote: > 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 think we are better off without headers. COPY doesn't have headers, so if we are using COPY output format, headers don't make sense --- any my guess is that you will have to check --version anyway for special handling, so having the headings isn't going to be a huge help. If we want headings, I suggest we have a special option that dumps out _only_ the headings. In fact, it might be nicer to have it dump out the CREATE TABLE needed to load the raw output. > 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. At this point, we should probably just do what is needed, and revisit for 7.5 --- straight COPY output would probably do the trick. Now, for a name. I wonder if --config-copy would be OK. It documents it is in COPY output format, and it allows us to add a human-readable version in the future if we ever want one. I didn't like --help-config because it is too easily confused with --help, which documents command-line flags --- this really doesn't do that. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
