On Fri, Jul 01, 2022 at 03:19:28PM -0700, Andres Freund wrote: > On 2022-07-01 15:13:16 -0700, Nathan Bossart wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 01, 2022 at 03:05:55PM -0700, Andres Freund wrote: >> > On 2022-07-01 14:56:42 -0700, Nathan Bossart wrote: >> >> The unparenthesized syntax for VACUUM has been marked deprecated since >> >> v9.1 >> >> (ad44d50). Should it be removed in v16? If not, should we start emitting >> >> WARNINGs when it is used? >> > >> > What would we gain? ISTM that the number of scripts and typing habits >> > that'd >> > be broken would vastly exceed the benefit. >> >> Beyond removing a few lines from gram.y and vacuum.sgml, probably not much. >> If it isn't going to be removed, IMO we should consider removing the >> deprecation notice in the docs. > > Still serves as an explanation as to why newer options haven't been / won't be > added in an unparenthesized manner. And maybe there one day will be reason to > remove them, e.g. grammar ambiguities.
Fair point. Thanks for the discussion. -- Nathan Bossart Amazon Web Services: https://aws.amazon.com
