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

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Call for objections: deprecate postmaster -o switch?
Date: 2001-11-24 22:47:57
Message-ID: 200111242247.fAOMlv715774@candle.pha.pa.us
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> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > So we just mention it is going away, but there are duplicates so they
> > can't start removing -o yet?
>
> Well, we'd have to give a table of recommended translations, eg
>
> -o '-S n' => --sort-mem=n

This is the part that threw me off. I see in the postmaster docs under
-c:
On some systems it is also possible to equivalently
use GNU-style long options in the form
--name=value.

so we would have to recommend '-c sort-mem=n.'

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