Re: One less footgun: deprecating pg_dump -d

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com, 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 19:12:39
Message-ID: 49B56A27.6010304@hagander.net
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Tom Lane wrote:
> "Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
>> 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 ERROR: -d has been replaced by -I
>
> Well, if you want to break it, we can debate about the wisdom of that.
> But please don't describe the patch in such a misleading way as the
> current thread title.

+1 with breaking it, but with a better message (and let's call it
breaking, not deprecating).

Oh, and the patch contains what looks like two merge failures, I'm sure
that wasn't intentional...

//Magnus

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