Hello Robert,
>> This very minor patch adds a corresponding long option to all short
>> (one letter) options of pgbench. [...]
>
> I don't really have an opinion on whether this is worth doing, but we'd
> probably want to update all of our client utilities, not just pgbench,
> if we did.
The current status is that "official" clients already have systematic long
options. I have checked: psql, pg_dump, pg_dumpall, pg_restore,
pg_basebackup, createdb, createuser, createlang. Possibly other commands
in contrib do not have long option.
As for the rational, when I type interactively I tend to use short
options, but in a script I like long options so that I may not need to
look them up in the documentation too often when reading the script later.
The other rational is that adding long options is cheap and
straightforward.
--
Fabien.