From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>,
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        Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>,
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Subject: Re: v12 and pg_restore -f-
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Comments: In-reply-to Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On 2019-Oct-17, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
>>> 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.

Please do.

>> 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.

I'm okay with that approach.

			regards, tom lane