Re: make pg_controldata accept "-D dirname"

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
To: Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: make pg_controldata accept "-D dirname"
Date: 2014-09-24 11:04:07
Message-ID: CABUevEz6NDS9OACZe6w8jmiHSEgfoHnOF3GHVmX5EX6KQ8=Saw@mail.gmail.com
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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.

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Magnus Hagander
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