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

Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
>> (a) did the sort_mem setting "take"?

> Sure did. I tried a sort value too low and it complained.

Okay, so the original bug is fixed on your version of BSD. (Which
is what, again?)

I looked a bit at configure and realized that we have no configure
test that causes src/utils/getopt.c to be selected. Apparently,
the *only* platform where src/utils/getopt.c is used is native WIN32,
so the "--foo" bug in it is irrelevant to the postmaster anyway.
But I'm still inclined to fix the bug.

It would be good to try to get a reading on whether there are any
current BSD distros that still have the getopt bug. But what I'm
inclined to do is note under the description of "--foo" that there
are a few older platforms where it won't work and you have to use -c,
rather than writing the docs on the assumption that -c is what most
people need to use.

regards, tom lane