Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On 2019-Oct-17, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
>>> Tom, I take it your suggestion is to have '-f -' be accepted to mean
>>> 'goes to stdout' in all branches?
>> Yes.
> +1 for this, FWIW. Let's get it done before next week minors. Is
> anybody writing a patch? If not, I can do it.
Please do.
>> No, I'm not proposing a full revert. But there's certainly room to
>> consider reverting the part that says you *must* write "-f -" to get
>> output to stdout.
> I don't think this will buy us anything, if we get past branches updated
> promptly.
I'm okay with that approach.
regards, tom lane