Arcady Genkin writes:
> g9genarc@eddie:~$ psql -h /var/pgsql --help
> psql was compiled without support for long options.
> Use --help for help on invocation options.
>
> I guess that it was confused by having both options at once, since
> "psql --help" works fine (i.e. the long options *do* work).
While this message is confusing, it's factually correct. ;-)
We used to have -? as the universal help option, but that
a) doesn't work in csh
b) doesn't play well with getopt(3)
So --help was the next best (or even better IMHO) choice, and to support
it on all installations we had to give it some special treatment.
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Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter
