Re: Removing postgres -f command line option

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Removing postgres -f command line option
Date: 2011-11-22 02:41:53
Message-ID: 201111220241.pAM2frS21286@momjian.us
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > I think it is hard to argue that such a user-visible flag is
> > reasonable, even if it helps backend developers avoid some keystrokes.
>
> > I think flags used only by backend developers should be things that can
> > _only_ be done with flags.
>
> Huh? By that argument, we should remove every single postmaster command
> line switch except "-c var=value", because all the other ones are
> shorthands for that --- Peter went to some lengths awhile ago to make
> that true.

I was talking about developer-use-only flags.

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