Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > One thing that seems very strange about the current API are flags that > > have meaning only when --help-config becomes before it, as with -G and > > -M. I have never seen that before, > > postgres -boot does exactly that, and the new code was modeled on it. > Which doesn't make it good design, maybe, but you can hardly claim > that there's no precedent.
However, -boot isn't documented because it is only for internal use. If it was for general use, I doubt it would still use that API. > We had also considered choosing a different executable name (the > postmaster-vs-postgres trick). But on platforms without symlinks, > like Windows, that would mean an extra whole copy of the backend > in the installed system, which seemed a bit much just to avoid some > ugliness in the switch set... Agreed. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
