Tom, your feelings on this? Does Lamar's argument change anything?
I agree this is not optimial, and see arguments against its inclusion
even in /contrib.
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > I think the issue is that we don't want to risk breaking pg_dumpall in a
> > minor release.
>
> No we don't, but I agree with Peter that pg_dumpall is the place for
> this feature in the long run. A separate contrib script is not going
> to get maintained.
>
> What I want to know is why we are adding features at all in a minor
> release. Especially 24 or so hours before release, when there is
> certainly no time for any testing worthy of the name. Contrib or no
> contrib, I think this is a bad idea and a bad precedent.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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