Re: fix in --help output

From: Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek(dot)Kotala(at)Sun(dot)COM>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: fix in --help output
Date: 2008-02-22 10:01:51
Message-ID: 47BE9D8F.20707@sun.com
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Alvaro Herrera napsal(a):
> Zdenek Kotala wrote:
>
>> If I looked correctly there is no getopt_long. There is only getopt with
>> - as a option. See PostmasterMain:
>>
>>
>> while ((opt = getopt(argc, argv,
>> "A:B:c:D:d:EeFf:h:ijk:lN:nOo:Pp:r:S:sTt:W:-:")) != -1)
>>
>> If I understand correctly the POSIX standard "-" should not used in a
>> option list.
>
> Hmm, right. Our current parsing of --long-opts is quite a hack, it
> seems :-( Having to list all GUC options in the getopt_long array would
> be a mess. Any other ideas?
>

I attached patch which replaces any "--..." occurrence with "-c..." on
command line.

Zdenek

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getopt.patch text/x-patch 1.8 KB

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