Steve Simms wrote:

>Chris has written:
>
><quote>
>Most of them generate Slonik scripts that are then to be passed on to the
>slonik utility to be submitted to all of the Slony-I nodes in a particular
>cluster. At one time, this embedded running slonik on the slonik scripts.
>Unfortunately, this turned out to be a pretty large calibre "foot gun,"
>as minor typos on the command line led, on a couple of occasions, to pretty
>calamitous actions, so the behaviour has been changed so that the scripts
>simply submit output to standard output. An administrator should review the
>slonik script before submitting it to Slonik.
></quote>
>
>Could we perhaps meet in the middle by adding an "--execute" option to the
>scripts (off by default) that will allow the scripts to be run?  It's a pain
>to have to copy the output to one or more files (depending on the command)
>and then run them through slonik -- that's a large part of why I want the
>scripts in the first place.
>
>(I'm volunteering to add this option, if that helps.)  :-)
>
>Thoughts anyone?  Good idea, Bad idea?
>  
>
Call it "--execute-foot-gun-maneuver" instead, and I'd be eminently 
happy ;-).