Re: fix in --help output - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Zdenek Kotala
Subject Re: fix in --help output
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Msg-id 47BDEA1F.8060605@sun.com
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In response to Re: fix in --help output  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane napsal(a):
> Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek.Kotala@Sun.COM> writes:
>> I attach fix for --help output. I replaced --NAME... with -NAME and add some
>> example. getopt parse -- as a end of options and rest of line is not parsed.
>
> Surely this is outright wrong.  Or if you do have a getopt that acts
> that way, the bug is that we are using it rather than one that acts
> the way we want.

Ah, sorry it really does not work.

However, I get following error on Solaris:

bash-3.2$ /usr/postgres/8.2/bin/postgres -D /tmp/db --share_buffers=16000
/usr/postgres/8.2/bin/postgres: illegal option -- share_buffers=16000
Try "postgres --help" for more information.

but following command works fine:

/usr/postgres/8.2/bin/postgres -D /tmp/db -c shared_buffers=16000


By my opinion problem is in getopt which interprets -- as a end of
options list.

See
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap12.html#tag_12_02
Guideline 10

It maybe work on linux but I think it is not portable solution.


        Zdenek

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