On ons, 2012-04-18 at 09:53 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> writes: > > My vote is to revert this altogether and leave it be. In the > > alternative, make it an error. > > You mean in HEAD too? I don't agree with that, for sure. What this > patch is accomplishing is to make sure that the less-commonly-used > programs have similar command-line-parsing behavior to psql and pg_dump, > where we long ago realized that failure to check this carefully could > result in very confusing behavior. (Especially on machines where > getopt is willing to rearrange the command line.)
OK, if you care strongly about that, make it an error. But don't just ignore things. > I agree with Andrew that this is a bug fix. I can see the argument > for not applying it to back branches, but not for declaring that it's > not a bug. We shouldn't be backpatching things that are merely confusing. It works as designed at the time, after all. Improvements belong in master. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
