From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
cc: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>, postgresql@taljaren.se,
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        Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Subject: Re: BUG #17717: Regression in vacuumdb (15 is slower than 10/11 and
 possible memory issue)
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Comments: In-reply-to Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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I wrote:
> Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com> writes:
>> I assumed it would look like:
>> VACUUM (UPDATE_DATABASE_STATS {yes,no,only})

> Meh.  We could do it like that, but I think options that look like
> booleans but aren't are messy.

Note that I'm not necessarily objecting to there being just one option,
only to its values being a superset-of-boolean.  Perhaps this'd work:

VACUUM (DATABASE_STATS {UPDATE,SKIP,ONLY})

			regards, tom lane