Re: VACUUM fails to parse 0 and 1 as boolean value

From: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi(dot)kyotaro(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Sawada Masahiko <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: VACUUM fails to parse 0 and 1 as boolean value
Date: 2019-05-20 17:10:24
Message-ID: CAHGQGwHTUt-kuwgiwe8f0AvTnB+ySqJWh95jvmh-qcoKW9YA9g@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 10:21 AM Kyotaro HORIGUCHI
<horiguchi(dot)kyotaro(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp> wrote:
>
> We now have several syntax elements seemingly the same but behave
> different way.
>
> At Thu, 16 May 2019 15:29:36 -0400, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote in <CA+TgmobK1ngid9Pxs7g8RFQDH+O1X4yyL+vMQtaV7i6m-Xn0rw(at)mail(dot)gmail(dot)com>
> > On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 2:56 PM Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > > Yes. Thanks for the comment!
> > > Attached is the updated version of the patch.
> > > It adds such common rule.
> >
> > I'm not sure how much value it really has to define
> > opt_boolean_or_string_or_numeric. It saves 1 line of code in each of
> > 3 places, but costs 6 lines of code to have it.
>
> ANALYZE (options) desn't accept 1/0 but only accepts true/false
> or on/off. Why are we going to make VACUUM differently?
>
> And the documentation for ANALYZE doesn't mention the change.

Commit 41b54ba78e seems to affect also ANALYZE syntax.
If it's intentional, IMO we should apply the attached patch.
Thought?

Regards,

--
Fujii Masao

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analyze-option-doc.patch application/octet-stream 2.2 KB

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