Re: One less footgun: removing pg_dump -d

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
To: Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)endpoint(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: One less footgun: removing pg_dump -d
Date: 2009-03-09 20:04:37
Message-ID: 49B57655.1020901@hagander.net
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Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
>>> -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 thought about something like that, but that would break even more existing
> scripts than the current patch, no? I'd be all for not using -I though, as that
> would not break anything.
>
> Sorry about the "deprecation" name, I withdraw that part
>
> Magnus: Sorry about non-mergeability, I wrote this while offline...

No, the problem is not that I get merge failures. It's that *your* merge
conflicts are included in the patch itself.

//Magnus

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