Re: Fix help option of contrib/oid2name

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: Tatsuro Yamada <yamada(dot)tatsuro(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Fix help option of contrib/oid2name
Date: 2018-08-20 08:38:08
Message-ID: 20180820083808.GA2339@paquier.xyz
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On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 03:51:07PM +0900, Tatsuro Yamada wrote:
> On 2018/08/20 13:54, Michael Paquier wrote:
> Therefore, "-P" is a manual bag. I investigated more using git log command and
> understood followings:
>
> 1. -P option was removed on 4192f2d85
> 2. -P option revived in only the manual on 2963d8228

Bruce did that to keep a trace of it in the docs, let's nuke it then, we
don't handle it and the documentation is mentioning the thing as
deprecated since 2010.

>> oid2name supports also PGDATABASE.
>
> As far as I know, this environment variable is also unused because
> I could not get the results as I expected. So, I didn't add it to the manual.
> For example, following command expected that it shows about "postgres", but
> it couldn't.

Yep, you're right.

> For now, I'm not sure about TAP test but I knew both utilities have no
> regression tests. It would be better to use something tests.

If you don't add them, I think that I would just that myself, just to
have some basics. Not that it is a barrier for this patch anyway.
--
Michael

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