On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 10:06:57AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@alvh.no-ip.org> writes: > > On 2022-Apr-28, David G. Johnston wrote: > >> But we don't go out of our way anywhere else to be so explicit about this > >> kind of requirement and don't see a point of making this instance an > >> exception. > > > Maybe we could add a <para> in the Options section before the item list, > > along the lines of "be mindful that arguments to options --auth, > > --auth-local, --encoding, --locale (and all --lc-* options) are > > case-sensitive". > > I don't think this is an improvement, mainly for the reason David > mentions: why wouldn't you need a similar statement on every single > one of our program man pages?
I think the confusion is that while the option arguments are case-sensitive, many of the values are typically used as all upper-case, and I think any doc mention would have to include that: Note that valid --auth option values are all lower case, even for authentication types that typically appear as all upper case, e.g., "LDAP". -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> https://momjian.us EDB https://enterprisedb.com Indecision is a decision. Inaction is an action. Mark Batterson