From: Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: proposal: pg_restore --convert-to-text
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2019 22:56:04 +0000
Message-ID: <87sgwrmhdv.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk> (raw)
One of the remarkably common user errors with pg_restore is users
leaving off the -d option. (We get cases of it regularly on the IRC
channel, including one just now which prompted me to finally propose
this)
I propose we add a new option: --convert-to-text or some such name, and
then make pg_restore throw a usage error if neither -d nor the new
option is given.
Opinions?
(Yes, it will break the scripts of anyone who is currently scripting
pg_restore to output SQL text. How many people do that?)
--
Andrew (irc:RhodiumToad)
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