Re: use of '=' in long options documentation - Mailing list pgsql-docs

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On tis, 2011-03-08 at 22:32 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Looking at our ref pages, I see some manual pages specify long options
> > that take arguments using '=', e.g. initdb.sgml:
> >
> >     --long-opt=opt
> >
> > and some do not, e.g. pg_dump.sgml:
> >
> >     --long-opt opt
> >
> > So, which should we use, for consistency?
>
> Using = is more common usage, I think.

Yeah!  Someone chimed in with a vote!  I will update the docs, but not
adjust any summary that has a space after the equals, e.g. initdb.

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