Bernd Helmle <maili...@oopsware.de> writes: > --On Montag, August 03, 2009 15:11:08 -0400 Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> > 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 would prefer it to be the default at least for pg_dump, Well, we could have pg_dump force the output format to hex regardless of what the default is. A disadvantage of doing that is there wouldn't be any convenient way to get pg_dump to *not* set the output format (unless we add a switch, which seems way overkill). Which would mean there would be no good way to get pg_dump to produce backwards-compatible output. But considering how many other backwards-incompatible changes we have put into pg_dump without blinking, I'm not sure this argument outweighs the probability of breaking a lot of applications. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers