Re: pg_dump -X

Robert Haas wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 10:36 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> > Robert Haas wrote:
> >> Back in 2006, we have this commit:
> >>
> >> commit 2b25e1169f44368c120931787628d51731b5cc8c
> >> Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
> >> Date: ? Sat Oct 7 20:59:05 2006 +0000
> >>
> >> ? ? The -X option in pg_dump was supposed to be a workaround for the lack of
> >> ? ? portable long options. ?But we have had portable long options for a long
> >> ? ? time now, so this is obsolete. ?Now people have added options which *only*
> >> ? ? work with -X but not as regular long option, so I'm putting a stop to this:
> >> ? ? -X is deprecated; it still works, but it has been removed from the
> >> ? ? documentation, and please don't add more of them.
> >>
> >> Since then, two additional -X options have crept in, doubtless due to
> >> mimicry of the existing options without examination of the commit
> >> logs. ?I think we should either (a) remove the -X option altogether or
> >> (b) change the comment so that it clearly states the same message that
> >> appears here in the commit log, namely, that no new -X options are to
> >> be created. ?The existing comment says that -X is deprecated, but that
> >> doesn't make it entirely 100% clear that the code isn't intended to be
> >> further updated, at least judging by the results.
> >
> > Code comment added with attached, applied patch.
>
> At a minimum, we should probably also remove -X no-security-label and
> -X no-unlogged-table-data, which don't exist in any released versions
> (unless you want to count alphas). But considering that this has been
> deprecated and undocumented since 8.2, I think it might be time to
> pull the plug on -X altogether.

I remove the new -X options with the attached, applied patch. The
existing options are not really costing us anything except a few lines
of code.

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