On 2019-11-04 15:53, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> 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.
Users with with hundreds or thousands of servers and various ancient
maintenance scripts lying around in hard-to-track ways are not going be
able to get everything upgraded to the latest minors *and* new script
versions any time soon. Until they do, they are effectively blocked
from introducing PG12 into their environment. This is very complicated
and risky for them. I think we should revert the part that requires
using -f - at least for PG12.
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