Re: "--version" flag missing from man pages

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Josh Kupershmidt <schmiddy(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: "--version" flag missing from man pages
Date: 2010-02-19 14:37:41
Message-ID: 201002191437.o1JEbfP20830@momjian.us
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Josh Kupershmidt wrote:
> 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(at)hades:~/src/postgresql/doc/src/sgml/ref$ grep "\-\-version" *.sgml
> ecpg-ref.sgml: <term><option>--version</option></term>
> pg_config-ref.sgml: <term><option>--version</option></>
> psql-ref.sgml: <term><option>--version</></term>
>
> Yet many other commands support a -V or --version flag which isn't in their
> man pages.
>
> $ initdb --version
> initdb (PostgreSQL) 8.5devel

Interesting, I never noticed they were not documented. I have applied
the attached patch which adds documentation for those options. These
new documentation changes will appear in Postgres 9.0

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