From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
To: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Cc: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de>
Cc: Corey Huinker <corey.huinker@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: vacuumdb: add --dry-run
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2025 13:42:23 -0600
Message-ID: <aTh7n0MTtP3GLllb@nathan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D34BB1FD-C704-4855-804D-932C054B1981@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Dec 09, 2025 at 07:04:24AM +0800, Chao Li wrote:
> I searched over the source tree, and find “Running in xxx mode” in initdb
> and option.c:
>
> [...]
>
> And “”Executing in dry-run mode” in a few commands: pg_archivecleanup.c,
> pg_createsubscriber.c, pg_combinebackup.c and pg_rewind.c.
>
> Should we make them all consistent?
I think both phrasings clearly convey the information just fine.
--
nathan
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