Tom Lane wrote:
> "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> writes:
> > On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 13:39 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> a long form only. And probably not even list it in the user
> >> documentation.
>
> > Why wouldn't we want to list it?
>
> Because it's for internal use only. Although the effect we're
> discussing here is relatively harmless, it seems possible that
> further down the road we might find a need for hacks that would
> render the output entirely unfit for ordinary dump purposes.
> I don't see a need to encourage people to play with fire.
>
> It's hardly unprecedented for us to have undocumented internal
> options --- there are some in postgres.c for example.
The important point is that we add comments in the source code about why
it is undocumented.
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