Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Don't override arguments set via options with positional argumen

On 04/17/2012 07:19 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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> On 04/17/2012 07:08 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 6:39 PM, Andrew Dunstan<andrew@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
>>> ------
>>> REL8_3_STABLE
>> Uh, isn't it kind of a bad idea to back-patch something like this?  It
>> seems like a behavior change.
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> It was discussed. I think the previous behaviour is a bug. It can't be 
> sane to be allowed to do:
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>    initdb -D foo bar
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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