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Re: BUG #19042: Option --help not recognized at the end of command line in pg_restore

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Cc: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>, Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Matthias Hörmann <matthias.hoermann@saltation.com>, pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2025-10-29T15:48:38Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs 
Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> writes:
> On 25.10.25 00:26, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>> While hacking on this it seemed like a good idea to move to using progname
>> consistently, and reduce scope in some places from global variables, but
>> looking at it now I'm less convinced.  At the very least it should be ripped
>> out into its own patch but for now those changes are left in there.

> The --version outputs intentionally do not use progname, so that you get 
> a proper identification of the program and version independent of what 
> the binary might be called.  Please don't change that.

Hmm, that's important institutional knowledge that should be captured
somewhere.

			regards, tom lane