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From Daniel Gustafsson
Subject Re: BUG #19042: Option --help not recognized at the end of command line in pg_restore
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Msg-id 144DDCC5-8EB1-4AA2-91FB-36916898A86F@yesql.se
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In response to BUG #19042: Option --help not recognized at the end of command line in pg_restore  (PG Bug reporting form <noreply@postgresql.org>)
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> On 3 Sep 2025, at 13:07, PG Bug reporting form <noreply@postgresql.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.

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Daniel Gustafsson

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