Re: BUG #2495: -i start up option blows pg_ctl program.

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> writes:
> In my system, on 7.4, contrib/pg_dumplo is linked against the system's
> getopt_long, not against our version. So the current code is OK -- but
> if on some platform there is no getopt_long, I suspect our version would
> be picked, which causes a problem. What should we do about it? One
> thought is leave it alone -- it's an old branch and no one has ever
> noticed this problem before. On the other hand, this may possibly be a
> security issue.

I'm not particularly concerned. AFAICS this is just a cosmetic bug, not
a security issue, and for little-used stuff like pg_dumplo I don't think
we need go out of our way to fix cosmetic issues in old branches.

regards, tom lane