From: | Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com> |
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To: | Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: make pg_controldata accept "-D dirname" |
Date: | 2014-09-24 13:54:27 |
Message-ID: | 5422CD13.4040706@vmware.com |
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On 09/24/2014 04:49 PM, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote:
> At 2014-09-24 09:25:12 -0400, tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us wrote:
>>
>> What's so hard about [ -D ] before the datadir argument?
>
> I'm sorry to have given you the impression that I objected to it because
> it was hard. Since I proposed the same thing a few lines after what you
> quoted, I guess I have to agree it's not hard.
>
> I think it's pointless, because if you're going to look at the usage
> message to begin with, why not do what it already says? But I don't
> care enough to argue about it any further.
There's also the reverse situation: you see that a script contains a
line like "pg_controldata -D foo". You're accustomed to doing just
"pg_controldata foo", and you wonder what the -D option does. So you
look it up in the docs or "pg_controldata --help".
- Heikki
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