Re: [HACKERS] postmaster dead on startup from unportable SSL patch

From: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] postmaster dead on startup from unportable SSL patch
Date: 1999-09-30 06:03:26
Message-ID: 37F2FD2E.81B045A6@alumni.caltech.edu
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> Comments? Ideas? Is it time to give up on getopt and go to multiletter
> switch names? (Of course that would break a lot of people's startup
> scripts... but we may someday be forced into it... maybe it's better
> to bite the bullet now.)

Break it ;)

The single-character switches are definitely non-intuitive. Implement
-I for now if you want, but if/when we release v7.0 breakage should be
OK. And with Jan's and Vadim's projects (among others) it looks like
v7.0 is coming up soon :)

- Thomas

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Thomas Lockhart lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu
South Pasadena, California

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