Thread: Re: output file name - was pg_restore / psql

Re: output file name - was pg_restore / psql

From
"Dave Page"
Date:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-hackers-win32-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-hackers-win32-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf
> Of Harald Armin Massa
> Sent: 03 October 2004 23:45
> To: Andrew Dunstan
> Cc: pgsql-hackers-win32@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] output file name - was
> pg_restore / psql
>
> Andrew,
>
> thank you very much! yes, that makes it clearer....
>
> and:
>
> > (Reading the man pages is a Good Thing (tm). )
>
> But sth. especially hard to do when working with beta3 on
> win32 ... "man pg_restore" only gives ... "command not found" :)))

The Win32 installer includes the docs in HTML format, with a link to
them on the Start menu. There is no 'man' command on Windows (or in Msys
by default) so we don't include the man pages.

If you're working from source code, then adding 'man' to your msys
installation shouldn't be an issue :-)

Regards, Dave