Neil Conway wrote: > The "--help" output for most of the binaries we install does not > include the "-V" option (just its alias, --version). Is this > intentional? > > (Note that we still document this option in the reference pages for > some commands, and initdb's help output does include "-V".)
--help and --version are the standard options that are supported everywhere. In the era before we had long options everywhere, we implemented -V as an alternative in some programs, in particular those in and around initdb, because of the version cross-checking it does using those options. At one point, long options where broken on some BSD versions. I don't know what became of that, but if we don't have new information it might be safest to leave things where they are. Hence, the -V option is not the preferred public interface, so it's not prominently documented, which may or may not be reasonable in minds other than my own. > Speaking of command-line options, "--version" and "--help" aren't > documented in a lot of command reference pages. Is there a good > reason why? I am not aware of one. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
