Re: Call for objections: deprecate postmaster -o switch?

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> No it's not, unfortunately.  BSD versions of getopt, including the one we
> ship as replacement, have a bug that considers any argument that starts
> with '--' to be equivalent with '--' (which means end of options).

Ugh.  Nonetheless, that doesn't equate to "you need GNU getopt to use
this".  Can we be more specific about whether it works or not?
        regards, tom lane