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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Nathan Bossart <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: pgsql: Add vacuum_truncate configuration parameter.
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2025 11:30:54 -0400
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Nathan Bossart <[email protected]> writes:
> Since there's presently no way to determine whether a Boolean
> storage parameter is explicitly set or has just picked up the
> default value, this commit also introduces an isset_offset member
> to relopt_parse_elt.

Uh, what?  Why is it a good idea to distinguish those states?
Seems like that risks some very surprising behavior, ie if the
default is "true", why shouldn't that act exactly like an
explicit setting of "true"?

			regards, tom lane

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