Re: BUG #17148: About --no-strict-names option and --quiet option of pg_amcheck command

On Tue, Aug 17, 2021, at 12:57 PM, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
> > On 17 Aug 2021, at 16:53, Euler Taveira <euler(at)eulerto(dot)com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 17, 2021, at 8:06 AM, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>
> >> ..I think we should reconcile them with
> >> something like this while in here and fixing things anyways:
>
> > I suggest that it should be a message that we already use in another binaries
> > such as "do not print any output, except for errors".
>
> Well, problem is that it’s plain not true. If you pass --quiet --verbose you
> will get a lot of output, albeit less than if not using --quiet. Consistency
> with other tools is obviously good, but only when it’s correct IMO.
Indeed, it is not a good design. It should be one option --verbose that
increases the verbosity according to a number or an enum value. --verbose=0
means "quiet". However, that ship has sailed.

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