| From: | Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com> |
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| To: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: make pg_controldata accept "-D dirname" |
| Date: | 2014-09-24 12:57:47 |
| Message-ID: | CAA-aLv5fv4jDG2QdX2pM9Op5LQfQz9v1FwerEB4nWf9gZh1fsQ@mail.gmail.com |
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On 24 September 2014 12:04, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
> 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".
>
> I haven't looked at the code, but definitely +1 for the feature.
> That's really quite annoying.
>
And here I was thinking it was just me.
+1
Thom
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