On Fri, Jul 01, 2022 at 03:13:16PM -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.
Deprecation doesn't imply eventual removal. java.io.StringBufferInputStream
has been deprecated for 25 years. One should not expect it or the old VACUUM
syntax to go away.