Re: fix in --help output - Mailing list pgsql-patches

Zdenek Kotala wrote:

> If I looked correctly there is no getopt_long. There is only getopt with
> - as a option. See PostmasterMain:
>
>
>    while ((opt = getopt(argc, argv,
> "A:B:c:D:d:EeFf:h:ijk:lN:nOo:Pp:r:S:sTt:W:-:")) != -1)
>
> If I understand correctly the POSIX standard "-" should not used in a
> option list.

Hmm, right.  Our current parsing of --long-opts is quite a hack, it
seems :-(  Having to list all GUC options in the getopt_long array would
be a mess.  Any other ideas?

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