Re: [HACKERS] postmaster dead on startup from unportable SSL patch

Thus spake Peter Eisentraut
> > The single-character switches are definitely non-intuitive. Implement
> 
> It's a backend people! My man page shows 12 defined switches, so there are
> at least 44 character switches left. A little imagination please.

My take is that on the CL I want single character flags for speed of
entry and in startup scripts I can comment if neccesary.

> Or do you *really* want to get into the business of writing your own
> getopt replacement??? Then you are liable to end up with something even
> less intuitive.

Well, in fact I do and have.  :-)

See http://www.druid.net/~darcy/files/getarg.c for a different type of
getopt.  It uses a different programmer API to add some functionality
but looks the same to the user unless they know about the extras.

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