Re: Linux LSB init script - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: Linux LSB init script
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Msg-id 603c8f070909170626y2072d3aal469b2c3a3e9b7b07@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Linux LSB init script  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 1:30 AM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
> Well, in such cases it may be useful to add an option such as --oknodo
> to select the idempotent behavior.

It took me about 60 seconds to figure out what I thought you were
going for there, so I submit that's not a good choice of option name.

> Yeah, except that part of the spec is hilariously unrealistic.  And

But since when do we worry about such things?  :-)

> I would pretty much remove all of that completely and replace it with a
> link to the spec.

FWIW, the comments Kevin quoted seem reasonable to me.

...Robert


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