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

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> The problem is that the long-established spelling is --with-ossp-uuid.
>> I don't think we can break that case.  While we could set up something
>> like what you propose alongside it, it doesn't seem like there's any
>> advantage to doing so compared to inventing --with-foo-uuid as needed.

> I was thinking that --with-ossp-uuid would still be required to enable
> UUID generators at all; the other one just selects the implementation to
> use, which defaults to OSSP to maintain backwards compatibility.  Maybe
> introduce --with-uuid and have --with-ossp-uuid a deprecated synonym of
> that.

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.
        regards, tom lane