Re: v12 and pg_restore -f-

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Euler Taveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com(dot)br>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "imai(dot)yoshikazu(at)fujitsu(dot)com" <imai(dot)yoshikazu(at)fujitsu(dot)com>, Andrew Gierth <andrew(at)tao11(dot)riddles(dot)org(dot)uk>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: v12 and pg_restore -f-
Date: 2019-11-04 19:44:19
Message-ID: 20191104194419.GA31861@alvherre.pgsql
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On 2019-Nov-04, Euler Taveira wrote:

> Em seg., 4 de nov. de 2019 às 16:12, Alvaro Herrera
> <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> escreveu:
> > I'm not sure if we need to call out the incompatibility in the minors'
> > release notes (namely, that people using "-f-" to dump to ./- will need
> > to choose a different file name).
> >
> Should we break translations? I'm -0.5 on changing usage(). If you are
> using 9.5, you know that it does not work. If you try it by accident
> (because it works in v12), it will work but it is not that important
> to inform it in --help (if you are in doubt, checking the docs will
> answer your question).

I would rather break the translations, and make all users aware if they
look at --help.

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Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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