Re: Fix help option of contrib/oid2name

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, Tatsuro Yamada <yamada.tatsuro@lab.ntt.co.jp>, Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2018-08-18T01:52:33Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> writes:
> On August 17, 2018 10:53:48 PM GMT+09:00, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Well, we can't remove the -H option, for that reason.  But I think
>> we could get away with repurposing -h to also mean "--host", rather
>> than "--help" as it is now.  Seems unlikely that any scripts are
>> depending on it to mean --help, nor are users likely to expect that
>> when none of our other programs treat it that way.

> Yeah, I don't see much point in mapping -h to --help. Let's map silently -H to --host then. Would you prefer if -H is still documented? Or would it be better if it is not documented, mapping silently?

I think it probably needs to stay documented, but we could mark it as
deprecated ...

			regards, tom lane


Commits

  1. Rework option set of vacuumlo

  2. Rework option set of oid2name