[pgpool-general: 3631] Re: version Option

Muhammad Usama m.usama at gmail.com
Thu Apr 16 17:33:15 JST 2015


On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 5:15 AM, Tatsuo Ishii <ishii at postgresql.org> wrote:

> >> However I a little bit worried about the backward compatibility if
> >> this should be back patched. Is there anyone who depends on the
> >> current behavior (the output goes to stderr)?
> >
> > I dont know this point.  What other app could depends of this option?
>
> I wonder if some user's script might want to know pgpool version using
> pgpool --version command. For example:
>
>        pgpool --version 2>/dev/stdout| awk '{print $3}'
>
> Now after the change this should be:
>
>        pgpool --version | awk '{print $3}'
>

I think we should still follow the Linux conventions even if it has a
chance to break some user's script. Also I think it is a minor change and
there would not be a lot of users who would get affected by this.

Thanks
Best regards,
Muhammad Usama

>
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