From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <200309052118.h85LIP419981@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: minor documentation improvements
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0309052312060.1173-100000@peter.localdomain>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 17:18:25 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>,
	PostgreSQL Patches <pgsql-patches@postgresql.org>
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Bruce Momjian writes:
> 
> > Huh?  We have been uppercasing GUC variable names in most places
> > already.
> 
> Currently, the documentation contains about 2 GUC variable names in upper
> case, the rest is lower case.  (The exception are the list headings in the
> main description in runtime.sgml, which are all upper case.  That is a bit
> inconsistent, but I think it's OK, because here they sort of serve as
> section titles.)  Also note that postgresql.conf, command-line option
> equivalents, and SET commands all tend to use them in lower case, so that
> seems like the direction to go.

Oh, OK, got it.

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