On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
> On 11/20/13, 3:24 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
>> The point is that client applications should expose whether or not to
>> set this function as a command-line switch separate from whatever they
>> accept in terms of connection strings. So pg_dump should have a flag
>> called --standalone-server or something like, and it should all
>> PQenableStartServer() only when that flag is used.
>
> The argument elsewhere in this thread was that the reason for putting
> this in the connection options was so that you do *not* have to patch up
> every client to be able to use this functionality. If you have to add
> separate options everywhere, then you might as well just have a separate
> libpq function to initiate the session.
Well, that's fair enough. I don't care much what the syntax is for
invoking the postmaster this way, as long as it's reasonably
convenient. I just want there to be one.
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