On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 11:06:13AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> writes: > > On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 4:31 PM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > >> 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. > > OK. FWIW, I'd vote for separate --no-instructions and --no-scripts > switches.
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