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

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 C3707C55-9C54-47FB-90FB-E47A36F7D721@yesql.se
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In response to Re: BUG #19042: Option --help not recognized at the end of command line in pg_restore  (Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>)
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> On 10 Sep 2025, at 07:26, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> wrote:
>
> On 03.09.25 21:34, Andres Freund wrote:
>> So +many for recognizing --help (and I'd say -?) everywhere, not just as the
>> first argument. I never understood why we don't do that.
>
> I think in the olden days we didn't have universal getopt_long() support, so it was hardcoded.  I don't see a problem
withchanging it. 

That's probably an accurate description.  I am writing up a patch to move it
into long option processing to see what it would look like, will share soon.

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Daniel Gustafsson

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