Dimitri Fontaine <dimi...@2ndquadrant.fr> writes: > On the other hand, discrepancies in between command line arguments > processing in our tools are already not helping our users (even if > pg_dump -d seems to have been fixed along the years); so much so that > I'm having a hard time finding any upside into having a different set of > command line argument capabilities for the same tool depending on the > major version.
> We are not talking about a new feature per se, but exposing a feature > that about every other command line tool we ship have. So I think I'm > standing on my position that it should get backpatched as a "fix". I don't think that argument holds any water at all. There would still be differences in command line argument capabilities out there --- they'd just be between minor versions not major ones. That's not any easier for people to deal with. And what will you say to someone whose application got broken by a minor-version update? If this feature were all that critical someone would have noticed its lack before now, anyway. So I can't get excited about back-patching. 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