On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 4:19 AM, Heikki Linnakangas
<heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> While looking at Shigeru Hanada's foreign join pushdown patch, I noticed a
> command line option that I didn't know to exist:
>
> $ postgres --help
> ...
> Developer options:
> -f s|i|n|m|h forbid use of some plan types
>
> That doesn't include all the options we support, the documentation lists:
> s|i|o|b|t|n|m|h. These are aliases for enable_* planner options, e.g -fs is
> equal to enable_seqscan=off.
>
> That seems completely useless to me, because you can also do "-c
> enable_seqscan=off". Any objections to removing the -f option altogether?
No. Seems useless to me.
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