On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 8:26 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> writes: > > On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Joshua D. Drake <j...@commandprompt.com> > wrote: > >> I humbly request on behalf of those who manage production postgresql > >> instances that we change the default backup file format from -Fp to -Fc. > > > I'm a bit worried about it breaking peoples scripts as well, if they > > pipe the output. > > Whether they pipe the output or not, this will break people's scripts. > I agree it's a legacy behavior that we wouldn't choose again, but you > could say that about an awful lot of things including much of the SQL > standard. I think it's too late to consider this now. >
Just a thought: If it's the right thing to do, why not do it in small steps? For example, couldn't we deprecate the behavior on 9.4, and switch over in 9.5? By deprecate I mean a warning message on STDERR making it clear they're relying on behavior that is scheduled to change. I don't think there's any precedence in postgres or it's tooling of this kind of deprecation process, but it seems we need to define something like it. Thoughts? -H
