[check_postgres] --exclude behavior doesn't seem to agree with the docs

[Guillaume Lelarge]

On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 14:19 -0700, Jeff Frost wrote:
> The docs on the website show the following example:
> 
> Exclude all items which start with the letters 'pg_', which contain the
> letters 'slon', or which are named 'sql_settings' or 'green'. Specifically
> check items with the letters 'prod' in their names, and always check the item
> named 'pg_relname':
> 
>  --exclude=~^pg_,~slon,sql_settings --exclude=green --include=~prod,pg_relname
> 
> 
> but when I try a similar strategy:
> 
>   --exclude='sys.' --exclude='pg_catalog.'
> 
> I still pick up tables in the pg_catalog schema.
> 
> However, if I use the comma separated nomenclature:
> 
> --exclude='sys.,pg_catalog.'
> 
> it doesn't pick up anything in sys or pg_catalog. 
> 
> Is this a documentation bug?
> 

Works for me. Maybe you should share your command line, and results.


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