Re: bytea vs. pg_dump

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 16:31, Robert Haas<robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Tom Lane<tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
>>> On Monday 03 August 2009 22:11:08 Tom Lane wrote:
>>>> I'm starting to look at this patch.  I observe that it's setting the
>>>> default output format to HEX.  If changing the default behavior was
>>>> agreed to, or even discussed, I do not remember where.  Shouldn't the
>>>> default stay the same?
>>
>>> I did pose that question in my patch submission email.
>>
>>> Unless there is overwhelming support in favor of changing, we probably
>>> shouldn't change it, at least not yet.
>>
>> While I've been poking at the pg_dump issues, it's occurred to me that
>> changing the default would be a great forcing function for finding out
>> any lurking problems.  What I'm inclined to do now is to commit it
>> *with* the change of default, and let it be that way at least for a
>> few alpha-test releases.  We can vote on whether to switch the default
>> back before 8.5 final.
>>
>> If this seems reasonable, I can make a note of the point in the commit
>> message, so that we won't forget when the time comes.
>
> Or, what we could do is start an open items for 8.5 list similar to
> the one we made for 8.4.  That worked pretty well, I think.

+1 for that solution, it seems much  better than having to go back
through commit messages. We might as well start it early!


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