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pg_dump -i wording

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>, Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>, "Jonah H. Harris" <jonah.harris@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-patches <pgsql-patches@postgresql.org>
Date: 2008-03-23T01:10:22Z
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Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 11:20 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > > Tom Lane wrote:
> > 
> > > > in fact, personally I'd like to make that case be a hard error,
> > > > rather than something people could override with -i.
> > 
> > +1 to this idea.  TODO for 8.4?
> 
> -1 without some more planning about the effects and implications.

I have developed the attached patch with improves wording for the
pg_dump -i (ignore version) option.

The previous wording just said "proceed" which was very neutral.  The
new wording says "skip", which is more active and more likely for people
to understand it isn't something to do lightly.

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