| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)endpoint(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: One less footgun: deprecating pg_dump -d |
| Date: | 2009-03-09 17:26:53 |
| Message-ID: | 1236619613.4649.26.camel@jd-laptop.pragmaticzealot.org |
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On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 12:48 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)endpoint(dot)com> writes:
> > The solution I came up with is to use a new letter, -I, and to deprecate -d by
> > having it throw an exception when used.
>
> "Deprecate" does not mean "break".
Sorry Tom. Greg is correct here although I disagree with his wording. It
should be removed and if someone passes -d it should throw an ERROR that
says something like:
ERROR: -d has been replaced by -I
Greg and I are both in the field and the field consistently uses -d in
the wrong way.
Joshua D. Drake
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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