Re: Darn, long option emulation doesn't work on FreeBSD - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Dominic J. Eidson
Subject Re: Darn, long option emulation doesn't work on FreeBSD
Date
Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.10.10011061919420.30359-100000@morannon.the-infinite.org
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In response to Darn, long option emulation doesn't work on FreeBSD  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
List pgsql-hackers
On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> So apparently we'll have to use an actual option letter for passing
> runtime configuration parameters.  Any suggestions?  Already in use are
> 
> a A b B C d D e E f F i l L m M n N o O p P Q s S t v W x

Q is not used (or broken):

morannon:~>postmaster -Q
postmaster: invalid option -- Q
Try -? for help.
morannon:~>postgres -Q
postgres: invalid option -- Q
Usage: postgres [options] [dbname]

... snip ...


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