Re: BUG #19042: Option --help not recognized at the end of command line in pg_restore

The 2025-09-03 13:45:15, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
> > On 3 Sep 2025, at 13:07, PG Bug reporting form <noreply(at)postgresql(dot)org> wrote:
>
> > When calling pg_restore trying to use --help at the end to see which other
> > options I might want to specify tells me that --help is an unrecognized
> > option and I am supposed to run pg_restore --help for more information.
>
> This is the intended behaviour, --help (and --version) is parsed specially and
> must be the first parameter. We do this for all command line utilities.
>
> --
> Daniel Gustafsson
>

Well, the use-case that comes up quite often for me (for any commands,
not just postgres) is that I add parameters I know or remember from my
last look at --help and then want to check again what else to add, for
that it is useful to be able to use --help as the last parameter.

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