Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@alvh.no-ip.org> writes:
> On 2024-Nov-27, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> Would there be a default?
> There would be no default. Running with no option given would raise an
> error. The point is: you want to break scripts currently running
> --analyze-in-stages so that they can make a choice of which of these two
> modes to run. Your proposal (as I understand it) is to remove the
> --analyze-in-stages option and add two other options. My proposal is to
> keep --analyze-in-stages, but require it to have a specifier of which
> mode to run. Both achieve what you want, but I think mine achieves it
> in a cleaner way.
I do not like the idea of breaking existing upgrade scripts,
especially not by requiring them to use a parameter that older
vacuumdb versions will reject. That makes it impossible to have a
script that is version independent. I really doubt that there is any
usability improvement to be had here that's worth that.
How about causing "--analyze-in-stages" (as currently spelled) to
be a no-op? We could keep the behavior available under some other
name.
regards, tom lane
