Re: Removing postgres -f command line option

Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@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.
        regards, tom lane