One issue is that these settings don't even exist in most builds unless
you add compiler flags.
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Josh Berkus wrote:
> 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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