Re: [PATCH] Replacement for OSSP-UUID for Linux and BSD

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)justatheory(dot)com>, Matteo Beccati <php(at)beccati(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers list <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Replacement for OSSP-UUID for Linux and BSD
Date: 2014-05-28 02:21:26
Message-ID: 53854826.8050305@gmx.net
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On 5/27/14, 2:41 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com> writes:
>> On 27 May 2014 18:33:48 EEST, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>> If we were going to do it like that, I'd vote for
>>>
>>> --with-uuid={ossp,e2fs,bsd}
>>>
>>> with no default at present (ie you can't say just "--with-uuid",
>>> though we'd have the option to allow that in future). But I doubt
>>> this is better than the --with-foo-uuid spelling.
>
>> FWIW, --with-uuid=foo looks much clearer to me.
>
> OK, I'll make it so.

I'm shocked that this new feature has been committed post beta with less
than 48 hours of review time over a holiday weekend. This issue has
been known for years. Why does it need to be solved right now?

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