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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