This was already the predominant form in man pages and help output.
<literal>foo</literal> in a database named
<literal>xyzzy</literal>:
<screen>
-<prompt>$ </prompt><userinput>clusterdb --table foo xyzzy</userinput>
+<prompt>$ </prompt><userinput>clusterdb --table=foo xyzzy</userinput>
</screen></para>
</refsect1>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-D <replaceable class="parameter">datadir</replaceable></option></term>
- <term><option>--pgdata <replaceable class="parameter">datadir</replaceable></option></term>
+ <term><option>--pgdata=<replaceable class="parameter">datadir</replaceable></option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Specifies the file system location of the database configuration files. If
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-l <replaceable class="parameter">filename</replaceable></option></term>
- <term><option>--log <replaceable class="parameter">filename</replaceable></option></term>
+ <term><option>--log=<replaceable class="parameter">filename</replaceable></option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Append the server log output to
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-m <replaceable class="parameter">mode</replaceable></option></term>
- <term><option>--mode <replaceable class="parameter">mode</replaceable></option></term>
+ <term><option>--mode=<replaceable class="parameter">mode</replaceable></option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Specifies the shutdown mode. <replaceable>mode</replaceable>
run using:
<programlisting>
-psql --username postgres --file script.sql postgres
+psql --username=postgres --file=script.sql postgres
</programlisting>
The scripts can be run in any order and can be deleted once they have
To reindex the table <literal>foo</literal> and the index
<literal>bar</literal> in a database named <literal>abcd</literal>:
<screen>
-<prompt>$ </prompt><userinput>reindexdb --table foo --index bar abcd</userinput>
+<prompt>$ </prompt><userinput>reindexdb --table=foo --index=bar abcd</userinput>
</screen></para>
</refsect1>
<literal>xyzzy</literal>, and analyze a single column
<literal>bar</literal> of the table for the optimizer:
<screen>
-<prompt>$ </prompt><userinput>vacuumdb --analyze --verbose --table 'foo(bar)' xyzzy</userinput>
+<prompt>$ </prompt><userinput>vacuumdb --analyze --verbose --table='foo(bar)' xyzzy</userinput>
</screen></para>
</refsect1>