Re: One less footgun: deprecating pg_dump -d

On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 12:48 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Greg Sabino Mullane <greg@endpoint.com> writes:
> > The solution I came up with is to use a new letter, -I, and to deprecate -d by
> > having it throw an exception when used.
> 
> "Deprecate" does not mean "break".

Sorry Tom. Greg is correct here although I disagree with his wording. It
should be removed and if someone passes -d it should throw an ERROR that
says something like:

ERROR: -d has been replaced by -I

Greg and I are both in the field and the field consistently uses -d in
the wrong way.

Joshua D. Drake


> 
>             regards, tom lane
> 
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