| 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: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Call for objections: deprecate postmaster -o switch? |
| Date: | 2001-11-24 22:18:52 |
| Message-ID: | 200111242219.fAOMJ8E10396@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > Yes, now I remember. Do we support long command-line options on all
> > platforms? I don't think so.
>
> GUC variable assignment works on all platforms.
OK, but when we recommend, we had better tell them to start using GUC
and not long command-line options _unless_ long options are supported on
their platform. Without that, there will be confusion.
Of course, now that we are recommending GUC, all the flags become
useless. Kind of a circular arguement here. :-)
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