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Re: [HACKERS] postmaster dead on startup from unportable SSL patch - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Thomas Lockhart
Subject Re: [HACKERS] postmaster dead on startup from unportable SSL patch
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Msg-id 37F2FD2E.81B045A6@alumni.caltech.edu
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In response to postmaster dead on startup from unportable SSL patch  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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> Comments?  Ideas?  Is it time to give up on getopt and go to multiletter
> switch names?  (Of course that would break a lot of people's startup
> scripts... but we may someday be forced into it... maybe it's better
> to bite the bullet now.)

Break it ;)

The single-character switches are definitely non-intuitive. Implement
-I for now if you want, but if/when we release v7.0 breakage should be
OK. And with Jan's and Vadim's projects (among others) it looks like
v7.0 is coming up soon :)
                     - Thomas

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Thomas Lockhart                lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu
South Pasadena, California

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