Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> The implementation of getopt_long in src/port has some limitations,
> for example such commands do not work but they should:
No, those should not work. You're too used to versions that don't insist
on switches-before-non-switch-arguments. Such behavior is an extension
that is not standard, is not documented in any Postgres documentation,
and tends to have bad corner-case behaviors. I don't feel a need to make
our implementation replicate that.
regards, tom lane