Re: Glitch in handling of postmaster -o options

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(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 03:25:18
Message-ID: 23284.1002857118@sss.pgh.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.

regards, tom lane

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