Re: make pg_controldata accept "-D dirname"

From: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>
To: Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: make pg_controldata accept "-D dirname"
Date: 2014-09-24 11:03:41
Message-ID: 5422A50D.8080709@vmware.com
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On 09/24/2014 01:59 PM, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I can never remember that pg_controldata takes only a dirname rather
> than "-D dirname", and I gather I'm not the only one. Here's a tiny
> patch to make it work either way. As far as I can see, it doesn't
> break anything, not even if you have a data directory named "-D".

Ah, I frequently run into that too; but with pg_resetxlog.

- Heikki

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