[Tile-serving] [openstreetmap/osm2pgsql] Allow propagating tags to ways during relations processing (#230)

[Sarah Hoffmann]

Sigh, it's amazing how this went from "it likely won't break any time soon" to "it's the proper way to do it" in a matter of hours. So let me be crystal clear here: (mis)using the slim tables for elaborate cross-joining and data analysis operations is not a proper way. If you do it, you are on your own. Don't open tickets if it doesn't work, don't ask for features so that your use-case is better supported and don't complain if things break when the format changes after all. The main design goal for the slim table remains to make the import and updates as fast as possible.

> Have the maintainers of osm2pgsql considered that the widespread use - in spite of the vehement disparagement of such use - indicates that they address a need that cannot be satisfied in any other way?

I don't doubt that there is a need, I just contest that osm2pgsql is the right tool for all those uses. Not everything is a nail just because you happen to have a hammer.

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