Re: One less footgun: deprecating pg_dump -d

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, 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 20:02:01
Message-ID: 49B575B9.3010804@hagander.net
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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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>
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov> writes:
>>
>>> Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
>>>> but maybe it's better to use -i and -I, and thus change them both?
>>>>
>>
>>
>>> That's already used:
>>>
>>
>>
>>> -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".
>>
>>
>>
>
> +1. I was just thinking the same thing.

+1, that sounds like a very good idea.

//Magnus

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