I attach fix for --help output. I replaced --NAME... with -NAME and add some
example. getopt parse -- as a end of options and rest of line is not parsed.
This should be backported for 8.3 and 8.2 as well. PG8.1 does not have this options.
Thanks Zdenek
Index: src/backend/main/main.c
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RCS file: /zfs_data/cvs_pgsql/cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/main/main.c,v
retrieving revision 1.110
diff -c -r1.110 main.c
*** src/backend/main/main.c 1 Jan 2008 19:45:49 -0000 1.110
--- src/backend/main/main.c 21 Feb 2008 17:02:16 -0000
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*** 288,294 ****
printf(_(" -p PORT port number to listen on\n"));
printf(_(" -s show statistics after each query\n"));
printf(_(" -S WORK-MEM set amount of memory for sorts (in kB)\n"));
! printf(_(" --NAME=VALUE set run-time parameter\n"));
printf(_(" --describe-config describe configuration parameters, then exit\n"));
printf(_(" --help show this help, then exit\n"));
printf(_(" --version output version information, then exit\n"));
--- 288,294 ----
printf(_(" -p PORT port number to listen on\n"));
printf(_(" -s show statistics after each query\n"));
printf(_(" -S WORK-MEM set amount of memory for sorts (in kB)\n"));
! printf(_(" -NAME=VALUE set run-time parameter (e.g. -shared_buffers=16384)\n"));
printf(_(" --describe-config describe configuration parameters, then exit\n"));
printf(_(" --help show this help, then exit\n"));
printf(_(" --version output version information, then exit\n"));
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