| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org> |
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| To: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Matthias Hörmann <matthias(dot)hoermann(at)saltation(dot)com>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>, pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: BUG #19042: Option --help not recognized at the end of command line in pg_restore |
| Date: | 2025-09-10 05:26:10 |
| Message-ID: | 513f6b2f-e6be-423d-aad6-4ab58988278b@eisentraut.org |
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On 03.09.25 21:34, Andres Freund wrote:
> So +many for recognizing --help (and I'd say -?) everywhere, not just as the
> first argument. I never understood why we don't do that.
I think in the olden days we didn't have universal getopt_long()
support, so it was hardcoded. I don't see a problem with changing it.
> I don't think the argument for --version is particularly strong from a
> usability perspective, but I don't see what we gain from parsing --version/-V
> differently than we do all the other arguments. It seems best to just handle
> --version the same as all the other arguments.
Right. If you try the usual GNU utilities, they handle --help and
--version at any argument position.
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