Re: Removing postgres -f command line option

Heikki,

On 17.11.2011 10:19, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> $ 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?
>

I knew about it. But - I never needed it and I always scroll over it 
when I show --help in my trainings.

When I was young - some when in last century - I learned that you never 
should remove a feature without pre-announcing it as deprecated.

I think it is better to mark it deprecated in 9.2 and totally remove it 
in 9.3.

Susanne

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