From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <200312160212.hBG2CgY27524@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: Possible bug in ECPGlib thread-safety (Postgres
In-Reply-To: <200312161311.08118.philip@utiba.com>
To: Philip Yarra <philip@utiba.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 21:12:42 -0500 (EST)
Cc: Demetres Pantermalis <dpant@intracom.gr>, pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
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Philip Yarra wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 12:58 pm, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > I don't think we are going to accept annoying our users on every
> > compile.
> 
> Wouldn't people generally be using Makefiles or similar? 
> ECPG_FLAGS = -t -f
> would do the trick. i can't imagine many people would seriously be typing
> "ecpg -t test.pgc && cc -I/usr/local/pgsql/include -L/usr/local/pgsql/lib 
> -pthread -lecpg -o test test.c" and baulk at an extra -f flag!
> 
> Having to specify a couple of flags for the desired behaviour is not uncommon 
> - Sybase's cpre is unbelievably verbose unless told otherwise. We just put 
> the "--shut-up" flags in the Makefile. Point is, we read the manual to find 
> out what the flags meant.

That has never been our style, and I don't think we want to start now.

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