Re: why was the VAR 'optind' never changed in initdb?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Clover White <mywhiteclover(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: why was the VAR 'optind' never changed in initdb?
Date: 2012-04-09 17:38:37
Message-ID: 10103.1333993117@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> i.e. we'd forbid:
> initdb -D foo bar
> which the OP's error more or less devolves to.

Makes sense. Don't we have a similar issue with psql, pg_dump, etc?

regards, tom lane

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