Re: One less footgun: deprecating pg_dump -d

On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 09:02:01PM +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov> writes:
> >>
> >>> Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)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".
> >
> > +1. I was just thinking the same thing.
>
> +1, that sounds like a very good idea.

FWIW, +1 from me for removing the -i and -d options, leaving only long
versions of what they used to do.

Cheers,
David.
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