Re: Time to remove unparenthesized syntax for VACUUM?

On Fri, Jul 01, 2022 at 03:19:28PM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2022-07-01 15:13:16 -0700, Nathan Bossart wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Still serves as an explanation as to why newer options haven't been / won't be
> added in an unparenthesized manner. And maybe there one day will be reason to
> remove them, e.g. grammar ambiguities.

Fair point. Thanks for the discussion.

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