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To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
cc: PostgreSQL-documentation <pgsql-docs@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Improve initdb and pg_controldata manual pages 
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Comments: In-reply-to Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
	message dated "Wed, 09 Mar 2011 09:20:40 -0500"
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 09:40:36 -0500
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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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