On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 4:31 PM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> writes: > > The use case for this is for example the debian or redhat package > wrappers. > > When these commands are run under those wrappers the printed instructions > > are *wrong*. It's better in that case to exclude them, and let the > wrapper > > be responsible for printing the correct instructions. > > Hm, does it matter? I think those wrappers send the output to /dev/null > anyway. >
The debian ones don't, because they consider it useful information to the user. I'd say that it is, especially in the case of pg_upgrade. (Less so about initdb, but still a bit -- especially when creating secondary clusters) The redhat ones I believe sent it to a logfile, not to /dev/null. Meaning it's not in your face, but it still contains incorrect instructions. -- Magnus Hagander Me: https://www.hagander.net/ <http://www.hagander.net/> Work: https://www.redpill-linpro.com/ <http://www.redpill-linpro.com/>
