I wrote:
Silent allow is fine with me, I was just wondering if anyone liked
the other options better.
Okay, I'm back on the warpath about this after noting yet another user
who thinks he should use -i mindlessly:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-admin/2008-04/msg00111.php
I believe the
Tom Lane wrote:
I believe the consensus was
* pg_dump and pg_restore should continue to accept -i/--ignore-version
options, to avoid needlessly breaking existing scripts, but these
switches will become no-ops; the version check will occur anyway.
* pg_dump should be fixed to allow server
Tom Lane wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Momjian) writes:
Log Message:
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Strengthen warnings about using pg_dump's -i option.
The proposed TODO item was not about doing this, it was about removing
the option altogether. AFAICS it's a foot-gun and nothing else --- why
do we
Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Tom Lane wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Momjian) writes:
Strengthen warnings about using pg_dump's -i option.
The proposed TODO item was not about doing this, it was about removing
the option altogether. AFAICS it's a foot-gun and nothing else ---
Tom Lane wrote:
Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Tom Lane wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Momjian) writes:
Strengthen warnings about using pg_dump's -i option.
The proposed TODO item was not about doing this, it was about removing
the option altogether. AFAICS it's a foot-gun
Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Tom Lane wrote:
My proposal would be to continue to accept the option but just ignore it
(ie, error out on version mismatch whether or not -i is given). This
way we wouldn't break any scripts that use the option, but things would
still be safe.
A
Tom Lane wrote:
Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Tom Lane wrote:
My proposal would be to continue to accept the option but just ignore it
(ie, error out on version mismatch whether or not -i is given). This
way we wouldn't break any scripts that use the option, but things would
Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Tom Lane wrote:
One point after looking back at the previous discussion is that the
current version test is too strict: it will complain if your server is
8.2.7 and pg_dump is 8.2.6. We probably should not make a newer minor
number a hard error, since
