From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Justin Clift <justin(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Marko Kreen <marko(at)l-t(dot)ee>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Glitch in handling of postmaster -o options |
Date: | 2001-10-12 05:33:50 |
Message-ID: | 200110120533.f9C5XoI20123@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > Would someone give me a status on this?
>
> I don't think we need any code changes. If we decide to deprecate -o
> (or anything else), it's just a documentation change. So we can argue
> about it during beta ...
>
> >> If we notify of the impending deprecation now, to actually occur in 7.3,
> >> would we be best intoducing alternative option names somewhere in the
> >> 7.2 beta cycle so people writing scripts for 7.2 can use the new names
> >> and know their scripts will work into the future?
>
> The alternative option names already exist, in the form of GUC
> variables. For example, "--sort-mem=NNN" could replace -S NNN.
OK, the long options already exist and people can use those in 7.2
without the -o, right?
Do you have to have long option support in your OS to use them? Do we
want to have options that _don't_ have single-letter versions?
Certainly we can't have single-letter versions of all the GUC options
but do we remove ones that were already there? I guess we could.
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