Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql/contrib/pg_dumpaccounts (Makefile README pg_dumpaccounts.sh)

Tom, your feelings on this?  Does Lamar's argument change anything?

I agree this is not optimial, and see arguments against its inclusion
even in /contrib.

> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > I think the issue is that we don't want to risk breaking pg_dumpall in a
> > minor release.
> 
> No we don't, but I agree with Peter that pg_dumpall is the place for
> this feature in the long run.  A separate contrib script is not going
> to get maintained.
> 
> What I want to know is why we are adding features at all in a minor
> release.  Especially 24 or so hours before release, when there is
> certainly no time for any testing worthy of the name.  Contrib or no
> contrib, I think this is a bad idea and a bad precedent.
> 
>             regards, tom lane
> 


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