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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@toroid.org>
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Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@toroid.org> writes:
> I would also prefer a GUC named gss_accept_delegation, but the current
> name matches the libpq gssdeleg connection parameter and the PGSSDELEG
> environment variable. Maybe there's something to be said for keeping
> those three things alike?

+1 for spelling it out in all user-visible names.  I do not think
that that GSS-API C symbol is a good precedent to follow.

			regards, tom lane