Re: pg_dump -X

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-03-12T01:37:41Z
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  1. The -X option in pg_dump was supposed to be a workaround for the lack of

Excerpts from Bruce Momjian's message of vie mar 11 00:59:03 -0300 2011:

> > At a minimum, we should probably also remove -X no-security-label and
> > -X no-unlogged-table-data, which don't exist in any released versions
> > (unless you want to count alphas).  But considering that this has been
> > deprecated and undocumented since 8.2, I think it might be time to
> > pull the plug on -X altogether.
> 
> I remove the new -X options with the attached, applied patch.  The
> existing options are not really costing us anything except a few lines
> of code.

Given that, it seems pretty pointless to remove support for -X options
that have existed for years.

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