Re: Removing postgres -f command line option

Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
> 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

Hmm, I thought I'd fixed that help message to match reality recently.

> That seems completely useless to me, because you can also do "-c
> enable_seqscan=off". Any objections to removing the -f option altogether?

I use it. See also src/test/regress/regressplans.sh, which would become
greatly less wieldy if it had to spell out the switches long-form.

regards, tom lane