Tom Lane wrote: > Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.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.
I think it is hard to argue that such a user-visible flag is reasonable, even if it helps backend developers avoid some keystrokes. I think flags used only by backend developers should be things that can _only_ be done with flags. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
