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

From Thom Brown
Subject Re: make pg_controldata accept "-D dirname"
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Msg-id CAA-aLv5fv4jDG2QdX2pM9Op5LQfQz9v1FwerEB4nWf9gZh1fsQ@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: make pg_controldata accept "-D dirname"  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
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On 24 September 2014 12:04, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> 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.

And here I was thinking it was just me.

+1 

Thom

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