| 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: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Fernando Nasser <fnasser(at)redhat(dot)com>, Dave Page <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>, Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: postgres --help-config |
| Date: | 2003-10-15 19:35:43 |
| Message-ID: | 200310151935.h9FJZha08310@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > One thing that seems very strange about the current API are flags that
> > have meaning only when --help-config becomes before it, as with -G and
> > -M. I have never seen that before,
>
> postgres -boot does exactly that, and the new code was modeled on it.
> Which doesn't make it good design, maybe, but you can hardly claim
> that there's no precedent.
However, -boot isn't documented because it is only for internal use.
If it was for general use, I doubt it would still use that API.
> We had also considered choosing a different executable name (the
> postmaster-vs-postgres trick). But on platforms without symlinks,
> like Windows, that would mean an extra whole copy of the backend
> in the installed system, which seemed a bit much just to avoid some
> ugliness in the switch set...
Agreed.
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