Re: v12 and pg_restore -f-

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, "imai(dot)yoshikazu(at)fujitsu(dot)com" <imai(dot)yoshikazu(at)fujitsu(dot)com>, Euler Taveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com(dot)br>, Andrew Gierth <andrew(at)tao11(dot)riddles(dot)org(dot)uk>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: v12 and pg_restore -f-
Date: 2019-11-04 19:24:29
Message-ID: 25226.1572895469@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> Turns out that this is a simple partial cherry-pick of the original
> commit.

In the back branches, you should keep the statement that stdout
is the default output file. Looks sane otherwise (I didn't test it).

> I'm not sure if we need to call out the incompatibility in the minors'
> release notes (namely, that people using "-f-" to dump to ./- will need
> to choose a different file name).

Well, we'll have to document the addition of the feature. I think it
can be phrased positively though.

regards, tom lane

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