Tom,
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 08:02:34PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> No, Dmitry has it right: the man page is mistaken. You can still get
> silent mode but you have to use the long-form option (--silent-mode=1).
>
> I've corrected the documentation error in CVS.
I think that you have forgotten to regenerate man pages from SGML since
8.2.1 is out and postgresql-base-8.2.1.tar.bz2 contains the old man page
for postgres(1).
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(GM)