From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>,
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Subject: Re: v12 and pg_restore -f-
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Comments: In-reply-to Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
	message dated "Mon, 04 Nov 2019 16:12:38 -0300"
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> Turns out that this is a simple partial cherry-pick of the original
> commit.

In the back branches, you should keep the statement that stdout
is the default output file.  Looks sane otherwise (I didn't test it).

> I'm not sure if we need to call out the incompatibility in the minors'
> release notes (namely, that people using "-f-" to dump to ./- will need
> to choose a different file name).

Well, we'll have to document the addition of the feature.  I think it
can be phrased positively though.

			regards, tom lane