Re: DOCS - Server Applications [option] should be [option...] - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Thu, Feb 19, 2026 at 8:32 AM Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se> wrote:
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> Side note: that looks like a bug, shouldn't it be the below?
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>     initdb [option...] [[ --pgdata | -D ] directory]
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You will have noticed that I am trying to keep each of these recent
threads/patches narrowly focussed on just one specific problem at a
time.

Last year I had tried fixing many of these same problems at once but
that thread went in too many directions at once, and got bogged down
eventually forgotten about. I hope this focussed thread strategy has a
better chance of success.

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But yes, I agree with you. The Option description [1] says "This is
the only information required by initdb, but you can avoid writing it
by..."

Feel free to post a thread / patch for this, or else I can add it to
my list and get to it sometime.

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[1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/app-initdb.html#APP-INITDB-OPTION-PGDATA

Kind Regards,
Peter Smith.
Fujitsu Australia