Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com> writes:
> I do think we should consider deprecating and dropping documentation of
> the options that are supported without parentheses (relevant to commands
> like ANALYZE, CLUSTER, VACUUM, and others). It is fine if we keep the
> code to make ANALYZE VERBOSE work, but I don't think it is useful to
> keep that documented. That is not a concern of this patch, however.
I doubt it's a great idea to de-document syntax that's still allowed
and will still be widely used for years to come; that just promotes
confusion. However, we could do something similar to what we did
for COPY years ago, and move the un-parenthesized syntax to the
"Compatibility" section.
regards, tom lane
