Re: use of '=' in long options documentation

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-documentation <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: use of '=' in long options documentation
Date: 2011-03-09 15:44:03
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On tis, 2011-03-08 at 22:32 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Looking at our ref pages, I see some manual pages specify long options
> that take arguments using '=', e.g. initdb.sgml:
>
> --long-opt=opt
>
> and some do not, e.g. pg_dump.sgml:
>
> --long-opt opt
>
> So, which should we use, for consistency?

Using = is more common usage, I think.

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