Re: documentation references invalid -A assertion checks option

On 2014-09-22 08:43:02 -0500, Merlin Moncure wrote:
> Both the documentation
> (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/app-postgres.html) and the
> --help switch to postgres reference a -A switch to handle assertion
> checking.   Looking at the code, I don't see any entry for -A in the
> getopt string and passing -A always fails with 'invalid option'
> regardless of the compile time setting.  If I'm right, either the docs
> or the source need to be patched.  The question is, which one?  (I
> vote to remove references to the option).

You're probably building master. That option has been removed (by me)
since. The 'devel' docs don't show the option anymore unless I missed a
place referencing it.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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