Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.208.211]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E37C863261E for ; Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:43:33 -0400 (AST) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.211]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 58057-01 for ; Sat, 19 Dec 2009 03:43:13 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from mail-qy0-f186.google.com (mail-qy0-f186.google.com [209.85.221.186]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BE4D6324E3 for ; Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:43:22 -0400 (AST) Received: by qyk16 with SMTP id 16so1519264qyk.15 for ; Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:43:21 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:from:date:message-id :subject:to:content-type; bh=r6A25r7epokCtM8Bd4HOr0om319dwdtIQ0b5TYyIN0I=; b=KhGdj8+BOeKs0QjC0t+dDQ4CeojsToYCPzR0eDsKXRMROe4DF3JNDBN+tgP/CDtiwP 0pmDOgvlNlx9wrA/84cbmJQ1ssAgw89zamZM/O1xJKU+JhJM8fUnD4Ir0WmOxlYoFeYK eQ9thGUNx6fvWznLzT0DO6ZUNuRD7K/nCu0PM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to:content-type; b=Dj3+bj6D1y1iYVhYhDUA2FyzLLyGE2LWu2fIkpY+O4eYE+MOwT5T+KIAvxgmiwd82+ JupBBIyKf6x9UlQXNItiPjqWp84cymexjXkRmDQUti5LVINQpfD9LDU64rEgGmNoR1aa 83oUyusX35RuXYHfeFsB2jN63sTLDSCUac1qk= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.112.139 with SMTP id w11mr2312695qcp.8.1261194201103; Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:43:21 -0800 (PST) From: Josh Kupershmidt Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:43:01 -0500 Message-ID: <4ec1cf760912181943j58d39cc6x18f0c282ec56fcd0@mail.gmail.com> Subject: "--version" flag missing from man pages To: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=00c09f90580d597fd6047b0ca8b5 X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.669 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=AWL=-0.930, BAYES_20=-0.74, HTML_MESSAGE=0.001 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200912/2 X-Sequence-Number: 5296 --00c09f90580d597fd6047b0ca8b5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I noticed that the "--version" flag is not in the man pages for pg_dump, pg_dumpall, initdb, and various other commands. Out of all the files in ./doc/src/sgml/ref/ , I can see only these three which have "--version" listed: josh@hades:~/src/postgresql/doc/src/sgml/ref$ grep "\-\-version" *.sgml ecpg-ref.sgml: pg_config-ref.sgml: psql-ref.sgml: Yet many other commands support a -V or --version flag which isn't in their man pages. $ initdb --version initdb (PostgreSQL) 8.5devel Josh --00c09f90580d597fd6047b0ca8b5 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I noticed that the "--version" flag is not in the man pages for p= g_dump, pg_dumpall, initdb, and various other commands. Out of all the file= s in ./doc/src/sgml/ref/ , I can see only these three which have "--ve= rsion" listed:

=A0 josh@hades:~/src/postgresql/doc/src/sgml/ref$ grep "\-\-versio= n" *.sgml
=A0 ecpg-ref.sgml:=A0=A0=A0=A0 <term><option>= --version</option></term>
=A0 pg_config-ref.sgml:=A0=A0=A0= =A0 <term><option>--version</option></>
=A0 psql-ref.sgml:=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 <term><option>--version</&= gt;</term>

Yet many other commands support a -V or --version f= lag which isn't in their man pages.

=A0 $ initdb --version
= =A0 initdb (PostgreSQL) 8.5devel

Josh

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