Re: Long options for pg_ctl waiting

On 09/07/2016 11:39 PM, Gavin Flower wrote:
> On 08/09/16 09:08, Vik Fearing wrote:
>> On 09/07/2016 10:41 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>>> Gavin Flower wrote:
>>>
>>>> possibly '--nosync' (& any similar) should have a '--no-sync' variation
>>>> added, with the '--nosync' variation documented as depreciated?
>>> I agree -- I would go as far as just documenting --no-sync only and
>>> keeping the --nosync one working with minimal (if any) visibility in
>>> docs.
>> Okay, here's a patch to do that.  I don't think it's the other patch's
>> job to do it.
>>
>> I also changed --noclean to --no-clean, and --no-locale was already
>> correct.
> 
> Suggest a comment along the lines "Where flags of the form --xxx have a
> negated form, then the preferred negated form is --no-xxx - and that any
> existing use of the form --noxxx should be converted to --no-xxx, as the
> non hyphenated form is now deprecated & will be removed in a future
> version of Postgres."

I have verified that these are the only two options anywhere in the tree
that start with "no" and not "no-" so it should be pretty easy for
future options to conform on their own.  I don't see adding a comment
like this to every long option definition block to be very helpful, and
only adding it to initdb is just weird.  So I don't see the need for it.

> Possibly generate warningswhen the non hyphenated form is used?

I'm not quite sure how I got volunteered to do this work, but it's easy
enough so I don't mind.

Here is a new patch that emits a warning when --noclean and/or --nosync
are used.
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