From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-documentation <pgsql-docs@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Improve initdb and pg_controldata manual pages
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 09:40:36 -0500
Message-ID: <22950.1299681636@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201103091420.p29EKe827660@momjian.us>
References: <201103091420.p29EKe827660@momjian.us>
Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> I have applied the attached patch to improve the initdb and
> pg_controldata manual pages. Patch from gabrielle <gorthx@gmail.com>.
This seems like the most bizarre choice you could have made.
It now looks like the preferred spelling of initdb's switch,
for instance, is
initdb --pgdata= /path/name
ie, *both* an equal sign and a space. Please rethink this.
regards, tom lane
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