"David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com> writes:
> I asked on IRC, and Andrew �RhodiumToad� Gierth pointed out that
> it became a reserved word at some point.
"Some point" would have been around the time VACUUM VERBOSE got
invented, ie January 1997 according to the CVS logs. We can't unreserve
it until you're ready to break that syntax (is VERBOSE a table name
or a flag for a database-wide vacuum?). Don't hold your breath.
regards, tom lane