Re: pg_ctl - tighten command parameter checking

On Sat, 2002-02-23 at 21:31, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> Oliver, I am going to reject this. We give them the syntax for the
> params. I don't see a need to check for leading dash to see if they
> forgot a param. I would like to see a more general solution that uses
> getopt or something more robust, but moving all that checking to each
> param just seems like a waste.

I would certainly prefer to use getopt, but is that portable? Peter
wants me to use case..esac instead of cut; I would have thought getopt
was a lot less portable.

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