Re: doc typo sql-reindex.html psql vs. postgres

Janning Vygen <vygen(at)gmx(dot)de> writes:
> At
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/sql-reindex.html

> it says:

> Rebuild all system indexes in a particular database,
> without trusting them to be valid already:

> $ export PGOPTIONS="-P"
> $ psql broken_db

> It should be:

> Rebuild all system indexes in a particular database,
> without trusting them to be valid already:

> $ export PGOPTIONS="-P"
> $ postgres broken_db
> ^^^^^^^^
> ,shouldn't it?

No, it's correct as it stands. You used to need a standalone backend
for that, but not anymore. (PGOPTIONS isn't recognized by a standalone
backend anyway, IIRC, so there would be more wrong with the example than
that if it were wrong.)

regards, tom lane