Simon Riggs <si...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > On 21 March 2014 20:58, Noah Misch <n...@leadboat.com> wrote: >> It's not the behavior I would choose for a new product, but I can't see >> benefits sufficient to overturn previous decisions to keep it.
> Speechless The key argument for not "fixing" this is that it would break existing pg_dump files. That's a pretty hard argument to overcome, unfortunately, even if you're willing to blow off the possibility that client applications might contain similar shortcuts. We still do our best to read dump files from the 7.0 era (see ConvertTriggerToFK() for one example of going above and beyond for that); and every so often we do hear of people trying to get data out of such ancient servers. So even if you went and fixed pg_dump tomorrow, it'd probably be ten or fifteen years before people would let you stop reading dumps from existing versions. 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