Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@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 -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers