04-01-2009
Use a function rather than an alias. An alias cannot incorporate arguments; a function can.
As the bash man page says, "For almost every purpose, aliases are superseded by shell functions."
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PGSNAP(1) User Commands PGSNAP(1)
NAME
pgsnap - PostgreSQL report tool
DESCRIPTION
pgsnap is a PostgreSQL tool that mimics orasnap performance report tool for Oracle.
Usage:
./pgsnap [OPTIONS]... [DBNAME]
General options:
-a, --all
build a report for all databases on the PostgreSQL server
-d DBNAME
specify database name to connect to (default: your login name)
-o outputdir
specify directory name where the reports will be created (default: the database name followed by 'snap_', followed by the date and
time)
-S, --without-sysobjects
all reports will display informations on user objects only
-S, --delete-if-exists
delete output directory if it already exists
--help show this help, then exit
--version
output version information, then exit
Connection options:
-h HOSTNAME
database server host or socket directory (default: "localhost")
-p PORT
database server port (default: "5432")
-U NAME
database user name (default: your login name)
-W prompt for password
AUTHOR and CREDITS
pgsnap is written and maintained by Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume at lelarge dot info>
The pgsnap website: http://pgsnap.projects.postgresql.org/
This manpage was written by Pierre Chifflier <chifflier@debian.org>
pgsnap 0.5.0 Feb 2010 PGSNAP(1)