Re: Order getopt arguments

On Mon, Dec 5, 2022 at 11:51 AM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > I was only talking about the actual argument to getopt(), not the
> > order of the code stanzas. I'm not sure what we ought to do about the
> > latter.
>
> 100% agreed that the getopt argument should just be alphabetical.
> But the bulk of Peter's patch is rearranging switch cases to agree
> with that, and if you want to do that then you have to also think
> about long options, which are not in the getopt argument. I'm
> not entirely convinced that reordering the switch cases is worth
> troubling over.

I'm not particularly sold on that either, but neither am I
particularly opposed to it.

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Robert Haas
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