| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: pg_controldata gobbledygook |
| Date: | 2013-04-26 04:21:58 |
| Message-ID: | 20130426042158.GW2169@eldon.alvh.no-ip.org |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> I think I've heard of scripts grepping the output of pg_controldata for
> this that or the other. Any rewording of the labels would break that.
> While I'm not opposed to improving the labels, I would vote against your
> second, abbreviated scheme because it would make things ambiguous for
> simple grep-based scripts.
We could provide two alternative outputs, one for human consumption with
the proposed format and something else that uses, say, shell assignment
syntax. (I did propose this years ago and I might have an unfinished
patch still lingering about somewhere.)
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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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