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

Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids@gmail.com> — 2025-09-03T20:58:08Z

On Wed, Sep 3, 2025 at 7:48 AM Matthias Hörmann <
matthias.hoermann@saltation.com> wrote:

> Well, the use-case that comes up quite often for me (for any commands,
> not just postgres) is that I add parameters I know or remember from my
> last look at --help and then want to check again what else to add, for
> that it is useful to be able to use --help as the last parameter.
>

Heavy +1 to fix this - it's always been a pet peeve of mine. Postgres tools
are not the only ones that do this, but they are definitely an outlier.

Cheers,
Greg

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