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

> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > So we just mention it is going away, but there are duplicates so they
> > can't start removing -o yet?
> 
> Well, we'd have to give a table of recommended translations, eg
> 
>     -o '-S n'    =>    --sort-mem=n

This is the part that threw me off.  I see in the postmaster docs under
-c:     On some systems it is also possible to equivalently     use    GNU-style     long    options   in   the   form
  --name=value.
 

so we would have to recommend '-c sort-mem=n.'

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