"David E. Wheeler" <da...@justatheory.com> writes: > On May 26, 2014, at 6:07 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> This means that if we want to give users control over which implementation >> gets selected, we actually need *three* configure switches. In the >> attached revision of Matteo's patch, I called them --with-ossp-uuid >> (the existing switch name), --with-linux-uuid, and --with-bsd-uuid. >> I'm not necessarily wedded to the latter two names; in particular it seems >> unfortunate that the right one to use on OS X is --with-linux-uuid. >> But I think --with-e2fsprogs-uuid is right out, so it's not clear what >> would be better.
> How about --with-unix-uuid? Or --with-ext2-uuid? Meh. "Unix" certainly subsumes BSD, so that doesn't seem like a very useful distinction. I guess we could use "ext2" but that would just confuse most people. > Which one is the default -- or is there one? The point here is that we won't make a default choice. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers