TODO item: remove postmaster -o option

I not gotten to reply to your earlier email. Removal of -o requires
that all the postgres flags be supported by the postmaster. I think
Peter Eisentraut is working on a patch to merge the two binaries and the
conflicting options.

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Markus Bertheau wrote:

Hi,

attached is a patch against HEAD that removes the postmaster's -o
option. It passes make check on i386 Ubuntu 5.10. I sent an e-mail
earlier today asking about the status of this TODO item to -hackers.
No answers so far :)

Markus Bertheau

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2006/3/5, Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>:

I not gotten to reply to your earlier email. Removal of -o requires
that all the postgres flags be supported by the postmaster. I think
Peter Eisentraut is working on a patch to merge the two binaries and the
conflicting options.

The docs say

"The use of this option is obsolete; all command-line options
for server processes can be specified directly on the
postmaster command line"

Markus Bertheau

"Markus Bertheau" <mbertheau.pg@googlemail.com> writes:

attached is a patch against HEAD that removes the postmaster's -o
option.

Removing the option without providing equivalent substitute
functionality is not what the TODO item has in mind :-(

Peter is working on something to clean up the problem properly:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2006-01/msg00239.php

regards, tom lane

Markus Bertheau wrote:

[Apologies to Bruce for the double send]

2006/3/5, Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>:

I not gotten to reply to your earlier email. Removal of -o requires
that all the postgres flags be supported by the postmaster. I think
Peter Eisentraut is working on a patch to merge the two binaries and the
conflicting options.

The docs say

"The use of this option is obsolete; all command-line options
for server processes can be specified directly on the
postmaster command line"

Uh, is this true? Peter?

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SRA OSS, Inc. http://www.sraoss.com

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Markus Bertheau wrote:

The docs say

"The use of this option is obsolete; all command-line options
for server processes can be specified directly on the
postmaster command line"

First, note the use of "obsolete" -- there are better ways to achieve
what you want -- as opposed to "deprecated" -- the use is recommended
against (for some reason to be specified). If we make a plan to remove
the -o option sometime, we should use the latter and announce our
intentions. That needs to be discussed, though.

The above documentation is only in the development branch, so deriving a
justification for removing that option from that is premature anyway.

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Peter Eisentraut
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