Vik Fearing <vik@2ndquadrant.fr> writes:
> On 09/08/2016 01:05 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I'm pretty much -1 on printing a warning. There's no ambiguity, and no
>> real reason for us ever to remove the old spellings. Standardizing on
>> "no-" going forward makes sense, but let's not slap people's wrists for
>> existing usage. (Or: if it ain't broke, don't break it.)
> One could also argue that 2 out of 53 "no" options omitting the dash is
> in fact broken, and a real reason to remove them.
I do not buy that. As a counter argument, consider that removing them
would make it impossible to write a script that works with both old
and new versions of PG. That's a mighty high price to pay for what
is little more than pedantry.
regards, tom lane