Re: [PATCH] Replacement for OSSP-UUID for Linux and BSD

"David E. Wheeler" <david(at)justatheory(dot)com> writes:
> On May 26, 2014, at 6:07 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> This means that if we want to give users control over which implementation
>> gets selected, we actually need *three* configure switches. In the
>> attached revision of Matteo's patch, I called them --with-ossp-uuid
>> (the existing switch name), --with-linux-uuid, and --with-bsd-uuid.
>> I'm not necessarily wedded to the latter two names; in particular it seems
>> unfortunate that the right one to use on OS X is --with-linux-uuid.
>> But I think --with-e2fsprogs-uuid is right out, so it's not clear what
>> would be better.

> How about --with-unix-uuid? Or --with-ext2-uuid?

Meh. "Unix" certainly subsumes BSD, so that doesn't seem like a very
useful distinction. I guess we could use "ext2" but that would just
confuse most people.

> Which one is the default -- or is there one?

The point here is that we won't make a default choice.

regards, tom lane