On 04/17/2012 07:19 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
On 04/17/2012 07:08 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 6:39 PM, Andrew Dunstan<and...@dunslane.net>
wrote:
Don't override arguments set via options with positional arguments.
A number of utility programs were rather careless about paremeters
that can be set via both an option argument and a positional
argument. This leads to results which can violate the Principal
Of Least Astonishment. These changes refuse to use positional
arguments to override settings that have been made via positional
arguments. The changes are backpatched to all live branches.
Branch
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REL8_3_STABLE
Uh, isn't it kind of a bad idea to back-patch something like this? It
seems like a behavior change.
It was discussed. I think the previous behaviour is a bug. It can't be
sane to be allowed to do:
initdb -D foo bar
You know, I could have sworn it was discussed, but when I look back I
see it wasn't. I must have been remembering the recent logging protocol bug.
I'll revert it if people want, although I still think it's a bug.
cheers
andrew
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