On 4/3/15 10:08 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> 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,
It is true that options after non-option arguments are a GNU extension,
but long options are also a GNU extension. So the behavior we provide
is neither pure POSIX nor pure GNU. I can see how that would be confusing.