On Mon, Dec 5, 2022 at 11:14 AM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > > +1 for Peter's proposal to just alphabetize. That's easy to maintain, > > at least in theory. > > Agreed for single-letter options. Long options complicate matters: > are we going to order their code stanzas by the actual long name, or > by the character/number returned by getopt? Or are we going to be > willing to repeatedly renumber the assigned codes to keep those the > same? I don't think I want to go that far.
I was only talking about the actual argument to getopt(), not the order of the code stanzas. I'm not sure what we ought to do about the latter. -- Robert Haas EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
