On 12/4/13, 2:02 PM, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa wrote:
> So optional fields are either purely optional (i.e., only for tools
> that want to use them; everyone else may ignore, but preserve, them) and
> some other are just NULLABLEs, depending on the parameter).
But my point stands: If it's optional, you can't rely on it, if it's
required, people will object because they don't more junk in their
config file.
But I think this is solving the wrong problem. The metadata is already
available via postgres --describe-config.