Re: Call for objections: deprecate postmaster -o switch?

Tom Lane writes:

> Ugh.  Nonetheless, that doesn't equate to "you need GNU getopt to use
> this".

... which is not what it used to say either.

> Can we be more specific about whether it works or not?

I reported the bug on 2000-11-06 to this list and added the -c option
briefly afterwards.  The bug caused initdb to fail on whatever FreeBSD
version postgresql.org was running at the time.

I agree that we could alter the "works on some platforms" to "might not
work on some platforms".

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net