Re: Database file copy

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov> writes:
>> If we're going to be supporting that long term, we should probably
>> change the note about FREEZE being deprecated, though.
>
>> So, still +1 on removing the wording about FREEZE being deprecated,
>> but instead we should mention what actually *is* deprecated (the
>> omission of the parentheses).
>
> If we're going to do that, we should deprecate the unparenthesized
> syntax altogether, with an eye to de-reserving VERBOSE and ANALYZE
> as well.

I'm not wildly enthusiastic about breaking this with only one
intervening release.  We normally support deprecated syntax for quite
a bit longer than that.

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