Re: One less footgun: deprecating pg_dump -d

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, 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 19:56:02
Message-ID: 49B57452.2030304@dunslane.net
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Tom Lane wrote:
> "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov> writes:
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>> Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
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>>> but maybe it's better to use -i and -I, and thus change them both?
>>>
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>> That's already used:
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>> -i, --ignore-version proceed even when server version mismatches
>> pg_dump version
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> Proposal: drop the short forms of these two switches entirely.
> Anybody who actually needs the capability can write "--inserts".
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>

+1. I was just thinking the same thing.

cheers

andrew

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