Re: 9.4 pg_restore --help changes

On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 9:44 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
> This is a valuable feature change, but I think the help output is
> unhelpful. The left side has a singular placeholder, but the right side
> talks about objects in plural. How do I actually specify multiple
> indexes? Is is --index=foo,bar? It's --index=foo --index=bar, but
> that's unclear from the help.
>
> I think it would be clearer to write something like
>
> -I, --index=NAME restore named indexes (repeat for multiple)
>
> or perhaps make a note at the bottom
>
> The options -I, -n, -P, -t, -T, --section can be combined and
> specified multiple times to select multiple objects.
>
> Other ideas?

I like the "note at the bottom" idea.

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