Re: [PATCH] Replacement for OSSP-UUID for Linux and BSD

On 5/27/14, 2:41 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@vmware.com> writes:
>> On 27 May 2014 18:33:48 EEST, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> If we were going to do it like that, I'd vote for
>>>
>>> --with-uuid={ossp,e2fs,bsd}
>>>
>>> with no default at present (ie you can't say just "--with-uuid",
>>> though we'd have the option to allow that in future).  But I doubt
>>> this is better than the --with-foo-uuid spelling.
> 
>> FWIW, --with-uuid=foo looks much clearer to me.
> 
> OK, I'll make it so.

I'm shocked that this new feature has been committed post beta with less
than 48 hours of review time over a holiday weekend.  This issue has
been known for years.  Why does it need to be solved right now?