Re: add non-option reordering to in-tree getopt_long - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Nathan Bossart
Subject Re: add non-option reordering to in-tree getopt_long
Date
Msg-id 20231218215201.GA586573@nathanxps13
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In response to Re: add non-option reordering to in-tree getopt_long  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: add non-option reordering to in-tree getopt_long
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On Mon, Dec 18, 2023 at 02:41:22PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> We just had a user complaint that seems to trace to exactly this
> bogus reporting in pg_ctl [1].  Although I was originally not
> very pleased with changing our getopt_long to do switch reordering,
> I'm now wondering if we should back-patch these changes as bug
> fixes.  It's probably not worth the risk, but ...

I'm not too concerned about the risks of back-patching these commits, but
if this 19-year-old bug was really first reported today, I'd agree that
fixing it in the stable branches is probably not worth it.

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Nathan Bossart
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