From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila(at)huawei(dot)com>, Boszormenyi Zoltan <zb(at)cybertec(dot)at>, Hari Babu <haribabu(dot)kommi(at)huawei(dot)com>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Passing connection string to pg_basebackup |
Date: | 2013-01-20 16:45:31 |
Message-ID: | CA+TgmoZXuegu72FG6mRAvrq6bUavCoYreJ-j1okn6um_-upp7w@mail.gmail.com |
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On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)fr> writes:
>> On the other hand, discrepancies in between command line arguments
>> processing in our tools are already not helping our users (even if
>> pg_dump -d seems to have been fixed along the years); so much so that
>> I'm having a hard time finding any upside into having a different set of
>> command line argument capabilities for the same tool depending on the
>> major version.
>
>> We are not talking about a new feature per se, but exposing a feature
>> that about every other command line tool we ship have. So I think I'm
>> standing on my position that it should get backpatched as a "fix".
>
> I don't think that argument holds any water at all. There would still
> be differences in command line argument capabilities out there ---
> they'd just be between minor versions not major ones. That's not any
> easier for people to deal with. And what will you say to someone whose
> application got broken by a minor-version update?
I heartily agree. I can say from firsthand experience that when minor
releases break things for customers (and they do), the customers get
*really* cranky. Based on recent experience, I think we should be
tightening our standards for what gets back-patched, not loosening
them. (No, I don't have a specific example off-hand, sorry.)
--
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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