Re: Call for objections: deprecate postmaster -o switch?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Call for objections: deprecate postmaster -o switch?
Date: 2001-11-25 22:58:49
Message-ID: 5623.1006729129@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> Tom Lane writes:
>> We had a discussion in late September about deprecating the postmaster's
>> -o switch in the 7.2 documentation, with an eye to removing it in 7.3:

> I'm not sure this notice would be utterly helpful since we have no
> concrete plans for any of the other options that need to be merged.

I was just planning to recommend not using -o, in favor of the already-
existing alternatives (-o -F => -F, -o -S n => --sort-mem=n, etc).

regards, tom lane

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