Re: One less footgun: deprecating pg_dump -d - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: One less footgun: deprecating pg_dump -d
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Msg-id 1236630219.4649.42.camel@jd-laptop.pragmaticzealot.org
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In response to Re: One less footgun: deprecating pg_dump -d  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 15:48 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov> writes:
> > Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.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
> 
> Proposal: drop the short forms of these two switches entirely.
> Anybody who actually needs the capability can write "--inserts".

I could buy into that.

Joshua D. Drake


> 
>             regards, tom lane
> 
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