| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, "D(dot) S(dot)" <spider(at)skuggor(dot)se>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: unrecognized option '--help |
| Date: | 2015-05-22 01:44:36 |
| Message-ID: | 20213.1432259076@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> Michael Paquier wrote:
>> It is wanted this way for all the utilities of src/bin. See
>> handle_help_version_opts() in src/bin/scripts/common.c for your case.
> Is it really wanted? I find it very annoying and wish it didn't do
> that.
I think the only thing that would do what you wanted would be to
recognize *any* argv element matching "--help" as a help request.
Maybe that's all right, but I'm a tad worried about the possibility
of false positives. Are we so sure that that string could never be
a database name, table name, etc?
regards, tom lane
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