--On 25. April 2013 23:19:14 -0400 Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
I think I've heard of scripts grepping the output of pg_controldata for this that or the other. Any rewording of the labels would break that. While I'm not opposed to improving the labels, I would vote against your second, abbreviated scheme because it would make things ambiguous for simple grep-based scripts.
I had exactly this kind of discussion just a few days ago with a customer, who wants to use the output in their scripts and was a little worried about the compatibility between major versions.
I don't think we do guarantuee any output format compatibility between corresponding symbols in major versions explicitly, but given that pg_controldata seems to have a broad use case here, we should maybe document it somewhere wether to discourage or encourage people to rely on it?
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