Re: pg_dump -X - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: pg_dump -X
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Msg-id 201103120556.p2C5uiT20431@momjian.us
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In response to Re: pg_dump -X  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: pg_dump -X
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Robert Haas wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 10:36 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> > Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> >> Excerpts from Bruce Momjian's message of vie mar 11 00:59:03 -0300 2011:
> >>
> >> > > At a minimum, we should probably also remove -X no-security-label and
> >> > > -X no-unlogged-table-data, which don't exist in any released versions
> >> > > (unless you want to count alphas). ?But considering that this has been
> >> > > deprecated and undocumented since 8.2, I think it might be time to
> >> > > pull the plug on -X altogether.
> >> >
> >> > I remove the new -X options with the attached, applied patch. ?The
> >> > existing options are not really costing us anything except a few lines
> >> > of code.
> >>
> >> Given that, it seems pretty pointless to remove support for -X options
> >> that have existed for years.
> >
> > I agree. ?They are not documented and only are a few C lines.
> 
> Presumably the point of deprecating the feature is that we'd
> eventually remove it.  If 4 major releases isn't long enough, what is?

Good point.

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