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help / color / mirror / Atom feedFrom: Daniel Gustafsson <[email protected]>
To: David Rowley <[email protected]>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Geoghegan <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Developers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Should we put command options in alphabetical order in the doc?
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2023 14:57:46 +0200
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> On 20 Apr 2023, at 14:40, David Rowley <[email protected]> wrote:
> I see "man grep" categorises the command line options and then sorts
> alphabetically within the category.
On FreeBSD and macOS "man grep" lists all options alphabetically.
> FWIW, vacuumdb --help has its options in alphabetical order using the
> abbreviated form of the option.
It does (as most of our binaries do) group "Connection options" separately
though, and in initdb --help and pg_dump --help we have other groupings as
well.
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Daniel Gustafsson
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