On Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 10:14:35PM +1200, David Rowley wrote:
> There are 3 notes there that read "This option is only available for
> servers running PostgreSQL 9.6 and later.". Since 9.6 is a few years
> out of support, can we get rid of these 3?
+1
> Or better yet, can we just delete them all? Is it really worth doing
> this in case someone is using a new vacuumdb on an older server?
>
> I just tried compiling the HTML with all the notes removed, I see from
> looking at a print preview that it's now ~1 full A4 page shorter than
> it was previously. 5 pages down to 4.
>
> Does anyone think we should keep these?
I'm +0.5 for removing all of them. While they are still relevant and could
potentially help users, these notes are taking up a rather big portion of
the vacuumdb page, and it should print a nice error message if you try to
use an option on and older server, anyway.
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Nathan Bossart
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