On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 6:16 AM, Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 10:46 PM, Andres Freund <and...@2ndquadrant.com> > wrote: >> On 2014-08-26 16:41:44 -0400, Peter Eisentraut wrote: >>> On 8/26/14 12:40 PM, Magnus Hagander wrote: >>> > I think the first reason is gone now, and the risk/damage of the two >>> > connections is probably smaller than running out of WAL. -x is a good >>> > default for smaller systems, but -X is a safer one for bigger ones. So >>> > I agree that changing the default mode would make sense. >>> >>> I would seriously consider just removing one of the modes. Having two >>> modes is complex enough, and then having different defaults in different >>> versions, and fuzzy recommendations like, it's better for "smaller >>> systems", it's quite confusing. >> >> Happy with removing the option and just accepting -X for backward >> compat. > > Works for me - this is really the cleaner way of doing it...
We cannot use -X stream with tar output format mode. So I'm afraid that removing -X fetch would make people using tar output format feel disappointed. Or we should make -X stream work with tar mode. Regards, -- Fujii Masao -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
