Re: Time to remove unparenthesized syntax for VACUUM?

From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Time to remove unparenthesized syntax for VACUUM?
Date: 2022-07-01 22:13:16
Message-ID: 20220701221316.GB624998@nathanxps13
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On Fri, Jul 01, 2022 at 03:05:55PM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2022-07-01 14:56:42 -0700, Nathan Bossart wrote:
>> The unparenthesized syntax for VACUUM has been marked deprecated since v9.1
>> (ad44d50). Should it be removed in v16? If not, should we start emitting
>> WARNINGs when it is used?
>
> What would we gain? ISTM that the number of scripts and typing habits that'd
> be broken would vastly exceed the benefit.

Beyond removing a few lines from gram.y and vacuum.sgml, probably not much.
If it isn't going to be removed, IMO we should consider removing the
deprecation notice in the docs.

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Nathan Bossart
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