Re: v12 and pg_restore -f-

On 2019-11-04 15:53, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> 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.

Users with with hundreds or thousands of servers and various ancient 
maintenance scripts lying around in hard-to-track ways are not going be 
able to get everything upgraded to the latest minors *and* new script 
versions any time soon.  Until they do, they are effectively blocked 
from introducing PG12 into their environment.  This is very complicated 
and risky for them.  I think we should revert the part that requires 
using -f - at least for PG12.

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