Re: One less footgun: deprecating pg_dump -d

From: Ron Mayer <rm_pg(at)cheapcomplexdevices(dot)com>
To: Selena Deckelmann <selena(at)endpoint(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, 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 19:14:34
Message-ID: 49B56A9A.3000204@cheapcomplexdevices.com
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Selena Deckelmann wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Greg Sabino Mullane<greg(at)endpoint(dot)com> writes:
>>> ...
>>> deprecate -d by having it throw an exception when used.
>>
>> "Deprecate" does not mean "break".
> ...
> While this change may break existing scripts...less painful

Why do people want a failure rather than warning messages
being spewed to both stderr and the log files?

If someone doesn't notice warnings there, I wonder if
even throwing an exception would save them.

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