use of '=' in long options documentation

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: PostgreSQL-documentation <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: use of '=' in long options documentation
Date: 2011-03-09 03:32:38
Message-ID: 201103090332.p293Wcq27270@momjian.us
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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?

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