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

Tom Lane writes:

> --sort-mem works, period.  Read the code.
>
> That part of the docs is in error, evidently.

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).

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net