initdb: Improve --wal-segsize handling

Give separate error messages for when the argument is not a number and
when it is not the right kind of number.

Fix wording in the help message.

diff --git a/src/bin/initdb/initdb.c b/src/bin/initdb/initdb.c
index feee359169933aa9728183b085f9a423aa2e5bf3..970463441c1295ffc99fe39277b872f56b953cf5 100644 (file)
--- a/src/bin/initdb/initdb.c
+++ b/src/bin/initdb/initdb.c
@@ -2323,7 +2323,7 @@ usage(const char *progname)
    printf(_("  -U, --username=NAME       database superuser name\n"));
    printf(_("  -W, --pwprompt            prompt for a password for the new superuser\n"));
    printf(_("  -X, --waldir=WALDIR       location for the write-ahead log directory\n"));
-   printf(_("      --wal-segsize=SIZE    size of wal segment size in megabytes\n"));
+   printf(_("      --wal-segsize=SIZE    size of WAL segments, in megabytes\n"));
    printf(_("\nLess commonly used options:\n"));
    printf(_("  -d, --debug               generate lots of debugging output\n"));
    printf(_("  -k, --data-checksums      use data page checksums\n"));
@@ -3224,11 +3224,17 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
        wal_segment_size_mb = strtol(str_wal_segment_size_mb, &endptr, 10);
 
        /* verify that wal segment size is valid */
-       if (*endptr != '\0' ||
-           !IsValidWalSegSize(wal_segment_size_mb * 1024 * 1024))
+       if (*endptr != '\0')
        {
            fprintf(stderr,
-                   _("%s: --wal-segsize must be a power of two between 1 and 1024\n"),
+                   _("%s: argument of --wal-segsize must be a number\n"),
+                   progname);
+           exit(1);
+       }
+       if (!IsValidWalSegSize(wal_segment_size_mb * 1024 * 1024))
+       {
+           fprintf(stderr,
+                   _("%s: argument of --wal-segsize must be a power of two between 1 and 1024\n"),
                    progname);
            exit(1);
        }