From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Cc: Matthias Hörmann <matthias.hoermann@saltation.com>
Cc: pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: BUG #19042: Option --help not recognized at the end of command line in pg_restore
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2025 15:22:30 -0400
Message-ID: <842688.1756927350@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <365ACB7B-B731-4F66-B69B-1765194A5B58@yesql.se>
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Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> writes:
> On 3 Sep 2025, at 16:57, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> I'd be in favor of recognizing
>> --help (though probably not -?) in any argument position.
> Any particular reason to restrict -? from this?
I'm not set on that either way. It just seems like --help is
quite unambiguous and unlikely to be a typo, whereas I'm less
sure about -?. I won't stand in the way of a consensus to
do this for both.
regards, tom lane
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