Re: Multiple --table options for other commands

On 12/13/2012 12:35:14 AM, Karl O. Pinc wrote:

> On 12/12/2012 11:04:53 PM, Josh Kupershmidt wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 8:14 AM, Karl O. Pinc <kop(at)meme(dot)com> wrote:
> > > On 12/11/2012 10:25:43 PM, Josh Kupershmidt wrote:
> > >> On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Karl O. Pinc <kop(at)meme(dot)com>
> > wrote:
> > >> >> I believe you need ellipses behind --table in the syntax
> > summaries
> > >> >> of the command reference docs.
>
>
> > > Yes. I see. I didn't look at all the command's reference pages
> > > but did happen to look at clusterdb, which does have --table
> > > in the syntax summary. I just checked and you need to fix
> > > clusterdb, reindexdb, and vacuumdb.
> >
> > OK, I made some changes to the command synopses for these three
> > commands.

> I want the ... outside the square braces, because the --table (or -t)
> must repeat for each table specified. Like:
>
> vacuumdb [connection-option...] [option...] [ --table | -t table
> [( column [,...] )] ]... [dbname]
>
> reindexdb [connection-option...] [ --table | -t table ]... [ --index
> |
>
> -i index ]... [dbname]

> Have you had trouble getting this to work?

Perhaps <arg choice="opt"><arg rep="repeat"> ... would work?

Karl <kop(at)meme(dot)com>
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