This is not the problem only for pg_test_timing. If you want to
address this, the patch needs to cover all the client commands
like psql, createuser. I'm not sure if it's worth doing that.
I think it might be an actively bad idea. There's a pretty
widespread convention that "--" is a no-op switch indicating
the end of switches. At least some of our tools appear to
honor that behavior (probably because glibc's getopt_long
does; I do not think we are implementing it ourselves).
"src/port/getopt_long.c" checks for "--" as the end of options.
--
Fabien.
