On 2019-Oct-17, Tom Lane wrote: > Stephen Frost <sfr...@snowman.net> writes: > > First, I'd like to clarify what I believe Tom's suggestion is, and then > > talk through that, as his vote sways this topic pretty heavily. > > > Tom, I take it your suggestion is to have '-f -' be accepted to mean > > 'goes to stdout' in all branches? > > Yes.
+1 for this, FWIW. Let's get it done before next week minors. Is anybody writing a patch? If not, I can do it. > > If you meant for all branches to accept '-f -' and have it go to a './-' > > file then that's just a revert of this entire change, which I can't > > agree with either > > No, I'm not proposing a full revert. But there's certainly room to > consider reverting the part that says you *must* write "-f -" to get > output to stdout. I don't think this will buy us anything, if we get past branches updated promptly. -- Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
