Re: v12 and pg_restore -f-

On 2019-Oct-17, Tom Lane wrote:

> Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> writes:
> > First, I'd like to clarify what I believe Tom's suggestion is, and then
> > talk through that, as his vote sways this topic pretty heavily.
>
> > 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.

> > If you meant for all branches to accept '-f -' and have it go to a './-'
> > file then that's just a revert of this entire change, which I can't
> > agree with either
>
> 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.

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