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Remove the long-deprecated -u option from psql, since it does nothing very

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useful and confuses people who think it is the same as -U.  (Eventually
we might want to re-introduce it as being an alias for -U, but that should
not happen until the switch has actually not been there for a few releases.)
Likewise in pg_dump and pg_restore.  Per gripe from Robert Treat and
subsequent discussion.
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Tom Lane
2007-12-11 19:01:06 +00:00
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<!--
$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml,v 1.196 2007/10/29 17:29:59 momjian Exp $
$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml,v 1.197 2007/12/11 19:01:06 tgl Exp $
PostgreSQL documentation
-->
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</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-u</></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Forces <application>psql</application> to prompt for the user name and
password before connecting to the database.
</para>
<para>
This option is deprecated, as it is conceptually flawed.
(Prompting for a non-default user name and prompting for a
password because the server requires it are really two different
things.) You are encouraged to look at the <option>-U</option> and
<option>-W</option> options instead.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-U <replaceable class="parameter">username</replaceable></></term>
<term><option>--username <replaceable class="parameter">username</replaceable></></term>