Re: pg_ctl and -h/help

From: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_ctl and -h/help
Date: 2013-06-30 05:29:20
Message-ID: CAB7nPqSRe-bn48Q50g-m-DYodA0esjg3gp_HKSQmQ5fQ4W5oEQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 10:45 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> In studying pg_upgrade's handling of --help, I noticed that pg_ctl
> supports -h for help, but it is the only tool to do so, and -h is not
> documented. I propose we remove -h for help in pg_ctl, and have it
> support only -? and --help.
I suppose that it doesn't hurt to have it, but for yes the sake of
consistency with the other binaries it would make sense to remove it.
Btw, not even the docs, it is also not listed in the --help message
findable in code.
--
Michael

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