Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2019 11:53:36 -0300
From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>,
	"imai.yoshikazu@fujitsu.com" <imai.yoshikazu@fujitsu.com>,
	Euler Taveira <euler@timbira.com.br>,
	Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk>,
	Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>,
	PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: v12 and pg_restore -f-
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On 2019-Oct-17, Tom Lane wrote:

> Stephen Frost <sfrost@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.

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