Tom Lane wrote:
Greg Sabino Mullane<g...@endpoint.com>  writes:
The solution I came up with is to use a new letter, -I, and to deprecate -d by
having it throw an exception when used.

"Deprecate" does not mean "break".

This '-d' thing is more than just a matter of reading the documentation. Our other command line utilities lead a person to assume (logically) that '-d' means something completely apart from what it actually does.

I've made this mistake, so have most other sysadmins I know.

While this change may break existing scripts, the result is that future users of Postgres will have a much less painful experience if they accidentally try to use that option.

-selena


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Selena Deckelmann
End Point Corporation
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