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

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• Removing postgres -f command line option at 2011-11-17 09:19:20 from Heikki Linnakangas

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