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Cc: Josh Kupershmidt <schmiddy@gmail.com>,
	pgsql-docs <pgsql-docs@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: explaining "context" column of pg_settings
From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 22:04:17 -0300
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Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of jue dic 16 21:11:49 -0300 2010:
> Josh Kupershmidt <schmiddy@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > I've put together a patch to help document these values based on the
> > comments in guc.h, the explanations in [2], and my own understanding.
> > My crude explanations could probably use some further wordsmithing and
> > check for accuracy :-)
> 
> I did some work on this patch and attach an updated version.  I'm not
> however convinced that it's a good idea to bury this material in
> catalogs.sgml --- I think few people ever read that chapter.  Shouldn't
> we put this into config.sgml instead, somewhere in section 18.1?

Perhaps we can replace the current "this setting requires a restart"
boilerplate with "this setting has context foo" in setting descriptions,
and have a pointer to wherever the description of each context is.

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