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From: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
To: Peter Geoghegan <[email protected]>
Cc: David Rowley <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Developers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Should we put command options in alphabetical order in the doc?
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2023 10:47:47 +0200
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH2-WzmcG1V14d=F7YF0gwEYh0xQE0BVvsO7SwDB9sgx2pBAYA@mail.gmail.com>

On 2023-Apr-18, Peter Geoghegan wrote:

> While I'm certain that nobody will agree with me on every little
> detail, I have to imagine that most would find my preferred ordering
> quite understandable and unsurprising, at a high level -- this is not
> a hopelessly idiosyncratic ranking, that could just as easily have
> been generated by a PRNG. People may not easily agree that "apples are
> more important than oranges, or vice-versa", but what does it matter?
> I've really only put each option into buckets of items with *roughly*
> the same importance. All of the details beyond that don't matter to
> me, at all.

I agree with you that roughly bucketing items is a good approach.
Within each bucket we can then sort alphabetically.

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Álvaro Herrera        Breisgau, Deutschland  —  https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/
"If you have nothing to say, maybe you need just the right tool to help you
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