| 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 05:17:14 |
| Message-ID: | 200110120517.f9C5HE919047@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > I don't think we can remove -o behavior during beta because it will
> > affect people using -S in startup scripts.
>
> That was *not* the proposal under discussion. The proposal was to
> warn people in the 7.2 documentation that we plan to remove -o in 7.3.
>
> AFAICS there is no backwards-compatible way to clean up these switches,
> and so the best bet is to make an incompatible change --- after suitable
> warning.
OK, it is on the TODO list so we can do it when we want to. So you are
considering only a documentation warning? I was thinking we should have
single-letter replacements installed and print a warning to the user
that the -o '-a -b -c' thing will go away in 7.3.
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