Re: One less footgun: deprecating pg_dump -d - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Ron Mayer
Subject Re: One less footgun: deprecating pg_dump -d
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Msg-id 49B56A9A.3000204@cheapcomplexdevices.com
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In response to Re: One less footgun: deprecating pg_dump -d  (Selena Deckelmann <selena@endpoint.com>)
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Selena Deckelmann wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Greg Sabino Mullane<greg@endpoint.com>  writes:
>>> ...
>>> deprecate -d by having it throw an exception when used.
>>
>> "Deprecate" does not mean "break".
> ...
> While this change may break existing scripts...less painful

Why do people want a failure rather than warning messages
being spewed to both stderr and the log files?

If someone doesn't notice warnings there, I wonder if
even throwing an exception would save them.




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