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

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Call for objections: deprecate postmaster -o switch?
Date: 2001-11-26 19:17:29
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.30.0111261553060.612-100000@peter.localdomain
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Tom Lane writes:

> Ugh. Nonetheless, that doesn't equate to "you need GNU getopt to use
> this".

... which is not what it used to say either.

> Can we be more specific about whether it works or not?

I reported the bug on 2000-11-06 to this list and added the -c option
briefly afterwards. The bug caused initdb to fail on whatever FreeBSD
version postgresql.org was running at the time.

I agree that we could alter the "works on some platforms" to "might not
work on some platforms".

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net

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