Re: Call for objections: deprecate postmaster -o switch? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Call for objections: deprecate postmaster -o switch?
Date
Msg-id 200111242227.fAOMRrj13262@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Call for objections: deprecate postmaster -o switch?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > 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.
> 
> This is entirely irrelevant, because the postmaster and backend don't
> have any long options (except GUC variables which work anyway).

Oh, I see.  We don't use long options for postmaster/postgres, just the
-c option to set a GUC value.  Got it.

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