Tom Lane writes:
> Ugh. Nonetheless, that doesn't equate to "you need GNU getopt to use
> this".
... which is not what it used to say either.
> Can we be more specific about whether it works or not?
I reported the bug on 2000-11-06 to this list and added the -c option
briefly afterwards. The bug caused initdb to fail on whatever FreeBSD
version postgresql.org was running at the time.
I agree that we could alter the "works on some platforms" to "might not
work on some platforms".
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Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net