Re: make pg_controldata accept "-D dirname" - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@2ndquadrant.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.

+1

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