Re: Improve initdb and pg_controldata manual pages - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Improve initdb and pg_controldata manual pages
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Msg-id 22950.1299681636@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Improve initdb and pg_controldata manual pages  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
Responses Re: Improve initdb and pg_controldata manual pages
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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

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