Remove pg_dump -i option (was Re: Proposed patch: synchronized_scanning GUC variable)

Simon Riggs escribió:
> On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 11:20 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > > Tom Lane wrote:
> >
> > > > in fact, personally I'd like to make that case be a hard error,
> > > > rather than something people could override with -i.
> >
> > +1 to this idea. TODO for 8.4?
>
> -1 without some more planning about the effects and implications.

Effect: we would stop receiving complaints that an old pg_dump can talk
to a server that most likely is incompatible with it. People would
learn on the spot that they must install the newer pg_dump.

Implication: you cannot dump a newer database and expect it to load on
an older server (it would work for certain versions, but not all). So
if people have a bleeding-edge test server, they cannot migrate stuff
from it to their older production server.

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