Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> I don't think we can remove -o behavior during beta because it will
> affect people using -S in startup scripts.
That was *not* the proposal under discussion. The proposal was to
warn people in the 7.2 documentation that we plan to remove -o in 7.3.
AFAICS there is no backwards-compatible way to clean up these switches,
and so the best bet is to make an incompatible change --- after suitable
warning. regards, tom lane