Re: A minor bug and a complaint

"Nikola Milutinovic" <Nikola(dot)Milutinovic(at)ev(dot)co(dot)yu> writes:
> First off, PostgreSQL 7.2; pg_ctl script has a bug I'm unable to locate. When I try to run it, I get the following:

> /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster: invalid argument --

> Somehow, "--" gets appended to the command line. No big deal, I can start postmaster manually.

A lot of other people use pg_ctl without any problem. If you want us to
take this report seriously, you'll need to provide some details that'd
show why it's not working for you. For instance, exactly how are you
invoking pg_ctl, in what environment, and on what platform?

> My complaint is about one other "feature" - pg_dump. It doesn't dump
> database encoding.

If you're speaking of pg_dump -C, that's fixed in current sources
(7.2.1-to-be).

regards, tom lane