From: Matthias Hörmann <matthias.hoermann@saltation.com>
To: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
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, 3 Sep 2025 13:48:38 +0200
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In-Reply-To: <144DDCC5-8EB1-4AA2-91FB-36916898A86F@yesql.se>
References: <19042-347869ae37c993f4@postgresql.org>
<144DDCC5-8EB1-4AA2-91FB-36916898A86F@yesql.se>
The 2025-09-03 13:45:15, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
> > On 3 Sep 2025, at 13:07, PG Bug reporting form <noreply@postgresql.org> wrote:
>
> > When calling pg_restore trying to use --help at the end to see which other
> > options I might want to specify tells me that --help is an unrecognized
> > option and I am supposed to run pg_restore --help for more information.
>
> This is the intended behaviour, --help (and --version) is parsed specially and
> must be the first parameter. We do this for all command line utilities.
>
> --
> Daniel Gustafsson
>
Well, the use-case that comes up quite often for me (for any commands,
not just postgres) is that I add parameters I know or remember from my
last look at --help and then want to check again what else to add, for
that it is useful to be able to use --help as the last parameter.
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