> Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Would someone give me a status on this? > > I don't think we need any code changes. If we decide to deprecate -o > (or anything else), it's just a documentation change. So we can argue > about it during beta ... > > >> If we notify of the impending deprecation now, to actually occur in 7.3, > >> would we be best intoducing alternative option names somewhere in the > >> 7.2 beta cycle so people writing scripts for 7.2 can use the new names > >> and know their scripts will work into the future? > > The alternative option names already exist, in the form of GUC > variables. For example, "--sort-mem=NNN" could replace -S NNN.
OK, the long options already exist and people can use those in 7.2 without the -o, right? Do you have to have long option support in your OS to use them? Do we want to have options that _don't_ have single-letter versions? Certainly we can't have single-letter versions of all the GUC options but do we remove ones that were already there? I guess we could. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 853-3000 + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
