Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On 2015-02-03 10:20:03 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Well, the object type is not an optional part of the command. It's
>> *necessary*. I was thinking more like
>>
>> REINDEX { INDEX | TABLE | etc } name [ ( option [, option ...] ) ]
>>
>> option := FORCE | VERBOSE
>>
>> We'd still keep the historical syntax where you can write FORCE outside
>> parens, but it'd be deprecated.
> Why would we allow force inside the parens, given it's a backward compat
> only thing afaik? Don't get me wrong, I'm not at all against a
> extensible syntax, I just don't see a point in further cargo culting
> FORCE.
Ah, I'd forgotten that that option was now a no-op. Yeah, there's no
reason to support it in the new syntax.
regards, tom lane
