Hi, I noticed that the pg_dump and pg_basebackup are not erroring out when "--fo"/"--for"/"--form"/"--forma"/" are specified(use cases 1 - 4, 7 - 9) whereas it fails if a pattern that doesn't match with "format" is specified (use case 5, 10). This seems to be true only for "--format" option, for other options it just errors out (use case 6). Why is the behaviour for "--format" isn't consistent?
Is it something expected? Is the option parsing logic here buggy? Thoughts? Use cases: 1) ./pg_dump --dbname=postgres --host=localhost --port=5432 --username=bharath --no-password --fo=plain --file=mydump.sql 2) ./pg_dump --dbname=postgres --host=localhost --port=5432 --username=bharath --no-password --for=plain --file=mydump.sql 3) ./pg_dump --dbname=postgres --host=localhost --port=5432 --username=bharath --no-password --form=plain --file=mydump.sql 4) ./pg_dump --dbname=postgres --host=localhost --port=5432 --username=bharath --no-password --forma=plain --file=mydump.sql 5) ./pg_dump --dbname=postgres --host=localhost --port=5432 --username=bharath --no-password --foo=plain --file=mydump.sql 6) ./pg_dump --dbname=postgres --host=localhost --port=5432 --username=bharath --no-password --format=plain --fi=mydump.sql 7) ./pg_basebackup -D bkupdata --fo=plain 8) ./pg_basebackup -D bkupdata --for=plain 9) ./pg_basebackup -D bkupdata --forma=plain 10) ./pg_basebackup -D bkupdata --foo=plain Regards, Bharath Rupireddy.
