> On 29 Oct 2025, at 17:54, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> writes:
>>> On 25.10.25 00:26, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>>> While hacking on this it seemed like a good idea to move to using progname
>>> consistently, and reduce scope in some places from global variables, but
>>> looking at it now I'm less convinced. At the very least it should be ripped
>>> out into its own patch but for now those changes are left in there.
>
>> The --version outputs intentionally do not use progname, so that you get
>> a proper identification of the program and version independent of what
>> the binary might be called. Please don't change that.
All callsites using handle_help_version_opts were already using progname for —version, this just made it consistent.
Thatbeing said, I can change it to be consistent in the other direction.
> Hmm, that's important institutional knowledge that should be captured
> somewhere.
Maybe a README in src/bin?
./daniel