Re: documentation references invalid -A assertion checks option

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: documentation references invalid -A assertion checks option
Date: 2014-09-22 14:07:58
Message-ID: 20140922140757.GA2521@awork2.anarazel.de
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On 2014-09-22 09:58:49 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > On 2014-09-22 08:43:02 -0500, Merlin Moncure wrote:
> >> Both the documentation
> >> (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/app-postgres.html) and the
> >> --help switch to postgres reference a -A switch to handle assertion
> >> checking.
>
> > You're probably building master. That option has been removed (by me)
> > since. The 'devel' docs don't show the option anymore unless I missed a
> > place referencing it.
>
> As Merlin says, HEAD is still doing this:
>
> $ postgres --help
> postgres is the PostgreSQL server.
>
> Usage:
> postgres [OPTION]...
>
> Options:
> -A 1|0 enable/disable run-time assert checking
> ...

Gah, 3bdcf6a5a7555035810e2ba2b8a0fb04dc5c66b8 removed several doc
references about it, but not --help. Will fix.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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