Re: src/port/getopt_long.c lossy with arguments having no option characters

On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 4:47 AM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
> 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.

Well, OK. Then we had better update a bit the TAP tests of initdb and
createdb because they break on any platform which is not compliant
with that.
--
Michael