> On 01 Mar 2018, at 05:07, Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>
> On 02/28/2018 08:42 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> I noticed that pg_verify_checksum takes an "-o oid" argument to only
>> check the relation with that OID; but that's wrong, because the number
>> is a relfilenode, not an OID (since it's compared to the on-disk file
>> name). I would suggest changing everything to clarify that it's a
>> pg_class.relfilenode value, otherwise it's going to be very confusing.
>> Maybe use "-f filenode" if -f is available?
>
> I'd argue this is merely a mistake in the --help text.
Agreed, the --help text isn’t really clear in this case and should be updated
to say something along the lines of:
printf(_(" -o relfilenode check only relation with specified relfilenode\n"));
cheers ./daniel