Peter Eisentraut wrote: > The command-line argument parsing in pg_ctl is not portable. This is the > output on a glibc system: > > $ pg_ctl start stop > pg_ctl: too many command-line arguments (first is "start") > > But: > > $ POSIXLY_CORRECT=1 pg_ctl start stop > pg_ctl: too many command-line arguments (first is "stop") > > This is probably because GNU getopt rearranges the arguments, and since pg_ctl > uses two while loops to try to allow non-option arguments before options, > things may get reordered multiple times. > > Now this particular case is minor trouble, but I wonder in what other > situations arguments will get reordered where the order does make a > difference.
Yea, I found that GNU getopt reordering thing to be very strange. I can imagine some risks to such reordering. Fortunately we don't have any other commands where we have to do this weird double-calls. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
