Re: One less footgun: deprecating pg_dump -d

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, 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 20:23:39
Message-ID: 1236630219.4649.42.camel@jd-laptop.pragmaticzealot.org
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On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 15:48 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov> writes:
> > Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
> >> but maybe it's better to use -i and -I, and thus change them both?
>
> > That's already used:
>
> > -i, --ignore-version proceed even when server version mismatches
> > pg_dump version
>
> Proposal: drop the short forms of these two switches entirely.
> Anybody who actually needs the capability can write "--inserts".

I could buy into that.

Joshua D. Drake

>
> regards, tom lane
>
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