pg_dump -X

Back in 2006, we have this commit:

commit 2b25e1169f44368c120931787628d51731b5cc8c
Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Date:   Sat Oct 7 20:59:05 2006 +0000

    The -X option in pg_dump was supposed to be a workaround for the lack of
    portable long options.  But we have had portable long options for a long
    time now, so this is obsolete.  Now people have added options which *only*
    work with -X but not as regular long option, so I'm putting a stop to this:
    -X is deprecated; it still works, but it has been removed from the
    documentation, and please don't add more of them.

Since then, two additional -X options have crept in, doubtless due to
mimicry of the existing options without examination of the commit
logs.  I think we should either (a) remove the -X option altogether or
(b) change the comment so that it clearly states the same message that
appears here in the commit log, namely, that no new -X options are to
be created.  The existing comment says that -X is deprecated, but that
doesn't make it entirely 100% clear that the code isn't intended to be
further updated, at least judging by the results.

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Robert Haas
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