| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> |
| Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tatsuro Yamada <yamada(dot)tatsuro(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Fix help option of contrib/oid2name |
| Date: | 2018-08-18 01:52:33 |
| Message-ID: | 12184.1534557153@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> writes:
> On August 17, 2018 10:53:48 PM GMT+09:00, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Well, we can't remove the -H option, for that reason. But I think
>> we could get away with repurposing -h to also mean "--host", rather
>> than "--help" as it is now. Seems unlikely that any scripts are
>> depending on it to mean --help, nor are users likely to expect that
>> when none of our other programs treat it that way.
> Yeah, I don't see much point in mapping -h to --help. Let's map silently -H to --host then. Would you prefer if -H is still documented? Or would it be better if it is not documented, mapping silently?
I think it probably needs to stay documented, but we could mark it as
deprecated ...
regards, tom lane
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