Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Strengthen warnings about using pg_dump's -i option. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

momjian@postgresql.org (Bruce Momjian) writes:
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> Strengthen warnings about using pg_dump's -i option.

The proposed TODO item was not about doing this, it was about removing
the option altogether.  AFAICS it's a foot-gun and nothing else --- why
do we have it?

BTW, a point I had forgotten is that pg_restore doesn't enforce that it
not be used with a newer server:
    /* XXX Should get this from the archive */    AHX->minRemoteVersion = 070100;    AHX->maxRemoteVersion = 999999;

I think this is probably sane, since after all we couldn't enforce that
the plain script output not be loaded into a newer server.  But it means
that -i is effectively a no-op for pg_restore, which again begs the
question of why we have it.
        regards, tom lane