On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 11:20 AM, Andres Freund <and...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: >> >* How about making it --help=variables instead of --help-variables? >> >> -1, help is not a variable to be assigned imho > > I don't think variable assignment is a good mental model for long > commandline arguments. And it's not like I'm the first to come up with > an extensible --help. Check e.g. gcc. > > But anyway, I guess I've lost that argument.
I think it mostly depends on how far we think we might extend it. I mean, --help-variables is fine as a parallel to --help. But if we're eventually going to have help for 12 things, --help=TOPIC is a lot better than 12 separate switches. So +0.5 for your proposal from me. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
