Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-5.hub.org [200.46.204.29]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA3181337BE2 for ; Wed, 9 Mar 2011 11:44:53 -0400 (AST) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.29]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 56128-04-5 for ; Wed, 9 Mar 2011 15:44:45 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net (mailout-de.gmx.net [213.165.64.23]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 376AA1337C23 for ; Wed, 9 Mar 2011 11:44:10 -0400 (AST) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 09 Mar 2011 15:44:09 -0000 Received: from fsgw.f-secure.com (EHLO [10.128.133.18]) [193.110.108.33] by mail.gmx.net (mp065) with SMTP; 09 Mar 2011 16:44:09 +0100 X-Authenticated: #495269 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/zKbIDfBfzCYevy5lc5Nc8WYbvz2AHq4hM6cQtaa fk2tsHiqxbK2OH Subject: Re: use of '=' in long options documentation From: Peter Eisentraut To: Bruce Momjian Cc: PostgreSQL-documentation In-Reply-To: <201103090332.p293Wcq27270@momjian.us> References: <201103090332.p293Wcq27270@momjian.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 17:44:03 +0200 Message-ID: <1299685443.20647.4.camel@fsopti579.F-Secure.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.909 tagged_above=-5 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201103/46 X-Sequence-Number: 6479 On tis, 2011-03-08 at 22:32 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Looking at our ref pages, I see some manual pages specify long options > that take arguments using '=', e.g. initdb.sgml: > > --long-opt=opt > > and some do not, e.g. pg_dump.sgml: > > --long-opt opt > > So, which should we use, for consistency? Using = is more common usage, I think.