On Wed, Jun 05, 2024 at 02:51:05PM -0400, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: > Please find attached a quick patch to prevent this particularly bad error > message for running "postgres", when making the common mistake of > forgetting to put the "--single" option first because you added an earlier > arg (esp. datadir)
Could we remove the requirement that --single must be first? I'm not thrilled about adding a list of "must be first" options that needs to stay updated, but given this list probably doesn't change too frequently, maybe that's still better than a more invasive patch to allow specifying these options in any order... -- nathan