On 12/15/2010 11:12 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera<alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
>> This bug seems closely related to process_postgres_switches. I guess
>> it'd be useful to add some debugging printouts there to figure out
>> what's being passed the second time around.
> It strikes me that the most obvious source for a platform dependency
> there would be getopt(), in particular the arrangements to cause getopt
> to behave sanely when we invoke it on a different argc array the second
> time around. If that were failing for some reason, you could imagine
> getopt seeing 'postgres' as the next switch to parse, which could lead
> to the reported failure.
>
> Hence:
>
> 1. Is that build using src/port/getopt.c, or a library-supplied getopt?
> What about getopt_long.c?
>
> 2. Is HAVE_INT_OPTRESET getting defined? Should it be?
>
>
I had the same thought. I did try forcing use of our getopt and
getopt_long, without success, but didn't look at optreset.
cheers
andrew
