Re: --sync-method isn't documented to take an argument

From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: --sync-method isn't documented to take an argument
Date: 2023-10-04 14:56:35
Message-ID: 20231004145635.GB3178@nathanxps13
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On Wed, Oct 04, 2023 at 09:08:57AM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> The various command-line utilities that have recently acquired a
> --sync-method option document it like this:
>
> <term><option>--sync-method</option></term>
>
> But that is not how we document options which take an argument. We do
> it like this:
>
> <term><option>--pgdata=<replaceable>directory</replaceable></option></term>
> <term><option>--filenode=<replaceable>filenode</replaceable></option></term>
>
> etc.
>
> This one should be something like this:
>
> <term><option>--sync-method=<replaceable>method</replaceable></option></term>

Whoops. Thanks for pointing this out. I'll get this fixed.

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Nathan Bossart
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